Nobel Prize

Dario Fo delivering his Nobel Lecture. English Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1997 Contra Jogulatores Obloquentes Against Jesters Who Defame and Insult “Against jesters who defame and insult”. Law issued by Emperor Frederick II (Messina 1221), declaring that anyone may commit violence against jesters without incurring The drawings I’m showing you are mine. Copies of these,…

Italian Contra Jogulatores Obloquentes Legge emessa da Federico II (1221, Messina) che permetteva di infliggere violenza ai giullari senza incorrere in alcuna pena o sanzione Le tavole che vi sto mostrando sono state disegnate e dipinte da me. A voi sono state distribuite delle immagini leggermente ridotte rispetto a queste. Ecco, io sono abituato da…

Swedish Contra Jogulatores Obloquentes Mot frispråkiga gycklare Lag utfärdad av Fredrik II (1221 Messina) innebärande tillstånd att bruka våld mot gycklare utan påföljd i form av något straff eller någon sanktion De bilder jag visar er här har jag själv tecknat och målat. Ni har fått bilder som är något förminskade jämfört med dessa. Ja,…

Seamus Heaney delivering his Nobel Prize lecture at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995. Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1995 Crediting Poetry When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the…

Kenzaburo Oe delivering his Nobel Prize lecture at the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1994. English* Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1994 Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself During the last catastrophic World War I was a little boy and lived in a remote, wooded valley on Shikoku Island in the Japanese Archipelago, thousands of miles away…

Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993 “Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise.” Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. “Once upon a time there was an…

Excerpt from Sula Excerpts selected by the Nobel Library of the . (Pages 56-57 and 134-137) T hen summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind…

Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1992 The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory Felicity is a village in Trinidad on the edge of the Caroni plain, the wide central plain that still grows sugar and to which indentured cane cutters were brought after emancipation, so the small population of Felicity is East Indian, and on the afternoon…

Spanish Conferencia Nobel 1990 La búsqueda del presente Comienzo con una palabra que todos los hombres, desde que el hombre es hombre, han proferido: gracias. Es una palabra que tiene equivalentes en todas las lenguas. Y en todas es rica la gama de significados. En las lenguas romances va de lo espiritual a lo físico,…

Octavio Paz delivering his Nobel Prize lecture at the Swedish Academy on 8 December 1990. English Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1990 (Translation) In Search of the Present I begin with two words that all men have uttered since the dawn of humanity: thank you. The word gratitude has equivalents in every language and in each…