Nobel Prize

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…

English Presentationstal av Professor Horace Engdahl, ständige sekreterare, ledamot av Svenska Akademien, Professor Horace Engdahl presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Orhan Pamuk beskriver i sin bok om hemstaden Istanbul hur han som ung hänfört studerade ett praktverk med gravyrer från tidigt…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Anders Olsson, ledamot av , 10 december 2009. Professor Anders Olsson presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Det finns litteratur som först långsamt, steg för steg, uppenbarar sina djupa kvaliteter. Och så finns det litteratur som omedelbart fångar…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1901 When Alfred Nobel decided to make the great donation which has justly received much attention, his entire life’s work led him to favour the study of nature and to reward discoveries in some of the sciences concerned with it. Likewise,…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the on December 10, 1902 The second paragraph of the Nobel statutes states that «Literature» should include not only belles-lettres, «but also other writings that in form or content show literary value». This definition sanctions the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to philosophers, writers…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1905 Wherever the literature of a people is rich and inexhaustible, the existence of that people is assured, for the flower of civilization cannot grow on barren soil. But in every nation there are some rare geniuses who concentrate in themselves…

Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1906 From the unusually large number of poets and authors proposed for the Nobel Prize this year, the Swedish Academy has chosen a great Italian poet who for a long time has attracted the attention both of the Academy and of…

Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Director of the , on December 10, 1908 Alfred Nobel was a man of action who, during his successful business career in the competing markets of many countries and in the international trade centres, had developed an awareness of the inner contradictions and dangers of modern developments. Mankind still seemed…

Presentation Speech by Harald Hjärne, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1913 In awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Anglo-Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, the Academy has found itself in the happy position of being able to accord this recognition to an author who, in conformity with the express…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1926 George Bernard Shaw showed in the novels of his youth the same conception of the world and the same attitude to social problems that he has maintained ever since. This provides a better defence for him than anything…