Literature
Doris Lessing – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
English December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in ’56, there was…
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Doris Lessing – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Artist: Karin Mamma Andersson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Photo reproduction: Fredrika Berghult
moreMario Vargas Llosa – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Brindis del Nobel Spanish Soy un contador de historias y, por lo tanto, antes de proponerles un brindis, voy a contarles una historia. Érase una vez un niño que a los cinco años aprendió a leer. Eso le cambió la vida. Gracias a los libros de aventuras…
moreMario Vargas Llosa – Prose
Prose
Spanish Excerpt from El Hablador Conocí la selva amazónica a mediados de 1958, gracias a mi amiga Rosita Corpancho. Sus funciones en la Universidad de San Marcos eran inciertas; su poder, inconmensurable. Merodeaba entre los profesores sin ser uno de ellos y todos hacían lo que Rosita les pedía; gracias a sus…
moreMario Vargas Llosa – Prose
Prose
English Excerpt from The Storyteller I FIRST became acquainted with the Amazon jungle halfway through 1958, thanks to my friend Rosita Corpancho. Her function at the University of San Marcos was vague; her power unlimited. She prowled among the professors without being one of them, and they all did whatever she asked; thanks to her…
moreNadine Gordimer – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1991 Writing and Being In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, signified God’s Word, the word that was Creation. But over the centuries of human culture the word has taken on other meanings, secular as well as religious. To have the word has come to be synonymous…
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