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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 :…

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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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…

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Yasunari Kawabata’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1968 Your Majesty. Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies the President and the Trustees of the Nobel Foundation, Members of the Royal Swedish Academy, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is the great honor of my life to have been proposed by…

Telephone interview, October 2015 “I am not a cool chronicler. My heart is always there” Telephone interview with Svetlana Alexievich, following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, 8 October 2015. The interviewer is Julia Chayka, and the following transcript is an English translation of the conversation in Russian. Interview…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Horace Engdahl, ledamot av , ledamot i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2016. Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Excellenser, Mina Damer och Herrar. Hur sker de stora omvälvningarna i litteraturens värld? Ofta genom att någon tar…