Nobel Prize

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…

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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…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Horace Engdahl, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2016. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, What…

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…

Artist: Jens Fänge Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

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Excerpt from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass English Illustration by Günter Grass © Günter Grass & DTV But now it was Monday afternoon and my grandmother was sitting by the potato fire. Today her Sunday skirt was one layer closer to her person, while the one that had basked in the warmth of her…