Nobel Prize

  December 12, 1976 I was a very contrary undergraduate more than 40 years ago. It was my habit to register for a course and then to do most of my reading in another field of study. So that when I should have been grinding away at “Money and Banking” I was reading the novels…

English Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 (Translation) Is Poetry Still Possible? The Nobel Prize has been awarded this year for the seventy-fifth time, if I am not misinformed. And if there are many scientists and writers who have earned this prestigious recognition, the number of those who are living and still working is much smaller.…

Italian Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1975 È ancora possibile la poesia II premio Nobel è giunto al suo settantacinquesimo turno, se non sono male informato. E se molti sono gli scienziati e gli scrittori che hanno meritato questo prestigioso riconoscimento, assai minore è il numero dei superstiti che vivono e lavorano ancora. Alcuni di essi…

Banquet speech 1970 As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970, the speech was read by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy (Russian, French, Swedish) Banquet speech 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10,…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970, the speech was read by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy Translation into French Sire, Mesdames, Messieurs! J’éspère que mon absence involontaire n’assombrira pas la plénitude de la cérémonie d’aujourd’hui. Dans la série des brefs…

English Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1968 (Translation) Japan, the Beautiful and Myself “In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer the cuckoo. In autumn the moon, and in winter the snow, clear, cold.” “The winter moon comes from the clouds to keep me company. The wind is piercing, the snow is cold.” The first of…

Japanese Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1968 *

English Mikhail Sholokhov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 (Translation) On this solemn occasion I find it my pleasant duty to extend my thanks once more to the , which has awarded me the Nobel Prize. As I have already had occasion to testify in public, the…

Russian Mikhail Sholokhov’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 *

English Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 (Translation) In carrying out the high duties entrusted to it, the Nobel Committee of the has this year awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a signal mark of honour on the international scene, to a writer from a…