Nobel Prize

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Min Vackra Fru, Ladies and Gentlemen. I thank the for finding my work worthy of this highest honor. In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence – but there is…

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Question: When was John Steinbeck born? Answer: John Ernst Steinbeck was born on 27 February 1902, in Salinas, California, United States. Question: What was John Steinbeck’s family background? Answer: His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was a county treasurer and his mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a teacher. He had two elder sisters, Esther and Elizabeth,…

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Celebrating the written world of human experience and imagination Six master storytellers Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature 1991 Nadine Gordimer: “I always repeat; read, read, read” When asked about her most valuable words of advice, Nadine Gordimer, answered: “Boringly, I always repeat; read, read, read and don’t read the book coming in a…

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Links to other sites – which provides information on conferences, etc., and contains the Society Newsletter, and where the useful The Hemingway Review Index can be downloaded. An for hearing Hemingway read selections from his own works. Readings include a recording by a Havana , Cuba, radio station of Hemingway reading his “Nobel Prize Acceptance…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

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