Nobel Prize

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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…

Norwegian Knut Hamsun’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1920 (in Norwegian) Nei hvad skal jeg gjöre overfor en saa hjærtelig Elskværdighet! Den löfter mig iveiret og jeg mister Fotfæstet, Salen farer avsted med mig. Det er ikke godt at være mig nu, jeg er blit tyk av Ære og…

Works in Norwegian Den Gaadefulde : en kjærlighedshistorie fra Nordland. – Tromsø : Urdal, 1877 Bjørger : fortælling. – Bodø : A. F. Knudsen, 1878 Fra det moderne Amerikas aandsliv. – København : Philipsen, 1889 Lars Oftedal : udkast. – Bergen : Mons Litlere, 1889 Sult. – København : Philipsen, 1890 Mysterier. – Copenhagen :…

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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…

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…

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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