Nobel Prize

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Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

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…

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…

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.…

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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…

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…