Nobel Prize

Mossbawn For Mary Heaney I. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of…

Seamus Heaney’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1995 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Today’s ceremonies and tonight’s banquet have been mighty and memorable events. Nobody who has shared in them will ever forget them, but for the laureates these celebrations have had a unique importance. Each of us has participated…

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Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931) was born in Karlbo in the province of Dalekarlia. The name Karlfeldt, which he assumed in 1889, was derived from the name of his father’s farm; his parents were Erik Janson and Anna Stina Jansdotter, both of whom came from old mining families. Karlfeldt attended schools at his birthplace and at…

Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (in Russian)

English Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (Translation) Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Many Nobel Prize laureates have appeared before you in this hall, but the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation have probably never had as much bother with anyone as…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

Translations into English One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. – New York : Praeger, 1963 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker. – New York, Dutton, 1963 We Never Make Mistakes : Two Short Novels /…

  Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, President of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1928 In his L’Évolution créatrice (1907) [Creative Evolution], Henri Bergson has declared that the most lasting and most fruitful of all philosophical systems are those which originate in intuition. If one believes these words, it appears immediately with…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Kjell Espmark, Member of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Trying to capture Derek Walcott’s oceanic work in a formula would be an absurd enterprise – had he not himself come to our assistance, shrewdly hiding a few key formulations in his…