Nobel Prize

English Knut Hamsun’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1920 (Translation) What am I to do in the presence of such gracious, such overwhelming generosity? I no longer have my feet planted on the ground, I am walking on air, my head is spinning. It is not easy to be…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1973, the speech was read by M. Sidney Nolan Your Majesty, and Gentlemen of the Swedish Academy, It is with great regret that I cannot revisit Stockholm on such an occasion as today. But to…

Works in English Poetry Thirteen Poems / under the pseudonym Patrick Victor Martindale. – Sydney : Privately printed, ca. 1929 The Ploughman and Other Poems. – Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935 Poems. – Victoria, B.C. : Soft Press, 1974   Novels Happy Valley. – London : Harrap, 1939 The Living and the Dead. – London…

by Stig Fredrikson This article was published on 22 February 2006. How I helped Alexandr Solzhenitsyn smuggle his Nobel Lecture from the USSR A controversial Nobel Prize When was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was already an outcast in his native country, the Soviet Union. After the novel “One Day in…

Novels Cashel Byron’s Profession. – London : Modern Press, 1886 An Unsocial Socialist. – London : Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1887 Love among the Artists. – Unauthorized ed. – Chicago : Stone, 1900. – 1 st authorized ed., London : Constable, 1914 The Irrational Knot. – London : Constable, 1905 Immaturity. – London : Constable, 1931. –…

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Credit: ITN Archive/Reuters * The event is described in a book by Abraham Pais, Einstein Lived Here (page 181), published by Clarendon Press in 1994.

Verse 25 Poems. – Port-of-Spain : Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948 Epitaph for the Young. Xll Cantos. – Bridgetown : Barbados Advocate, 1949 Poems. – Kingston, Jamaica : City Printery, 1951 In a Green Night. Poems 1948–60. – London : Cape, 1962 Selected Poems. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1964 The Castaway and Other…

Two poems by Derek Walcott Sea Grapes That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband’s longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa’s name in every gull’s outcry. This…

Derek Walcott’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Representatives of the Nobel Foundation, Honourable Members of the Academies, the Karolinska Institute and Election Committees, Students, Ladies and Gentlemen, The honour that you pay me is accepted in the one name that comprises all of the supposedly broken…