Nobel Prize

Works in Russian Stikhotvoreniia i poemy. – Washington, D.C. : Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965 Ostanovka v pustyne. – New York: Izdatel’stvo imeni Chekhova, 1970. Rev. ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1989 Chast’ rechi: Stikhotvoreniia 1972-76. – Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1977 Konets prekrasnoi epokhi : stikhotvoreniia 1964-71. – Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1977 V Anglii.…

Joseph Brodsky’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1987 Your Majesties, Ladies and Gentlemen, I was born and grew up on the other shore of the Baltic, practically on its opposite grey rustling page. Sometimes on clear days, especially in autumn, standing on a beach somewhere in Kellomaki, a friend would poke his finger…

English Nobel Lecture December 8, 1987 (Translation) I For someone rather private, for someone who all his life has preferred his private condition to any role of social significance, and who went in this preference rather far – far from his motherland to say the least, for it is better to be a total failure…

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Selected works From the Four Winds. – London : Unwin, 1897. – (as John Sinjohn) Jocelyn. – London : Duckworth, 1898. – (as John Sinjohn) Villa Rubein. – London : Duckworth, 1900. – (as John Sinjohn) A Man of Devon. – London : Blackwood, 1901. – (as John Sinjohn) The Island Pharisees. – London :…

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Works in German (large selection) Der kleine Herr Friedemann : Novellen. – Berlin : Fischer, 1898 Buddenbrooks : Verfall einer Familie : Roman. – 2 vol. – Berlin : Fischer, 1901 Tristan : Sechs Novellen. – Berlin : Fischer, 1903 Fiorenza. – Berlin : Fischer, 1906 Bilse und ich. – München : Bonsels, 1906 Königliche…

German Thomas Mann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1929 (in German) Der Augenblick zu danken ist nun auch für mich gekommen, ein er sehnter Augenblick, ich brauche es nicht zu sagen. Und nun, wo er da ist, wo es gilt, nun steht zu fürchten, dass das Wort sich dem…

English Thomas Mann’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, December 10, 1929 (Translation) Now my turn to thank you has come, and I need not tell you how much I have looked forward to it. But alas, at this moment of truth I am afraid that words will fail my feelings, as…

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