Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the In our modern age, American authors have set their stamp more and more strongly on the general physiognomy of literature. Our generation in particular has, during the last few decades, seen a reorientation of literary interest which implies not only a temporary change in the market…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1934 The work of Luigi Pirandello is extensive. As an author of novellas he certainly is without equal in output, even in the primary country of this literary genre. Boccaccio’s Decameron contains one hundred novellas; Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno (1922-37) has…

Presentation Speech by E. Wessén, Member of the Iceland is the cradle of narrative art here in the North. This is ultimately due to the peculiar nature and development of the Icelandic community. In Iceland there were no conditions for the rise of the class society elsewhere so characteristic of the Middle Ages, with its…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1937 The recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1937, Roger Martin du Gard, has dedicated most of his activity to a single work, a long series of novels with the collective title, Les Thibault (1922-40). It is a vast work…

Swedish Presentationstal av Författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2010. Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Mario Vargas Llosas författarskap har format vår bild av Sydamerika och har ett eget kapitel…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1938 Pearl Buck once told how she had found her mission as interpreter to the West of the nature and being of China. She did not turn to it as a literary speciality at all; it came to her naturally. «It is…

Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1921 Anatole France was no longer a young man when, in 1881, he captured the attention of the literary public in France and subsequently in the civilized world with his curious novel, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. He had behind him a long…

  Presentation Speech by Horace Engdahl, Ph.D., Permanent Secretary of the December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Dr. Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the Middle Ages,…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the , Member of its Nobel Committee, Professor Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In his book about his native Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Member of the , 10 December 2009. Professor Anders Olsson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Some literature reveals its deep qualities slowly, step by step. Other literature…