Nobel Prize

English Nobel Lecture on 2 May, 1973 (Translation) An Essay on the Reason of Poetry It is said by those who ought to know – and by others, who also ought to know, it is disputed – that in matters which to all appearances are rational, calculable and achieved by the combined efforts of architects,…

English Excerpt from The Clown I It was dark by the time I reached Bonn, and I forced myself not to succumb to the series of mechanical actions which had taken hold of me in five years of traveling back and forth: down the station steps, up the station steps, put down my suitcase, take…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

English François Mauriac’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1952. (Translation) The last subject to be touched upon by the man of letters whom you are honouring, I think, is himself and his work. But how could I turn my thoughts away from that work and that man,…

Selected works in French 1. Novels and stories L’enfant chargé de chaînes. – Paris : Grasset, 1913 La robe prétexte. – Paris : Grasset, 1914 La chair et le sang. – Paris : Emile-Paul, 1920 Préséances. – Paris : Emile-Paul, 1921 Le baiser au lépreux. – Paris : Grasset, 1922 Le fleuve de feu. –…

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 7 octobre 2010 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2010est attribué à l’auteur péruvien Mario Vargas Llosa « pour sa cartographie des structures du pouvoir et sesimages aiguisées de la résistance de l’individu, de sa révolte…

Works in Spanish Los jefes. – Barcelona : Rocas, 1959 La ciudad y los perros. – Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1963 La casa verde. – Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1966 Los cachorros. – Barcelona : Lumen, 1967 La novela. – Montevideo : Fundación de Cultura Universitaria, 1968 La novela en América Latina : diálogo [entre…

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English Excerpt from The Storyteller (El Hablador) 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…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 7 October 2010 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2010 is awarded to the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”.