Nobel Prize

Italian Salvatore Quasimodo’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1959 Ho sempre pensato al regno di Svezia come a una patria adottiva degli uomini che ricevono il Premio Nobel, cioè un riconoscimento unico e revente nella civiltà contemporanea. Nessun’altra nazione, infatti, è riuscita a proporre o a concretare…

English Albert Camus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 (Translation) In receiving the distinction with which your free has so generously honoured me, my gratitude has been profound, particularly when I consider the extent to which this recompense has surpassed my personal merits. Every man, and for…

French Albert Camus’ speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1957 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, En recevant la distinction dont votre libre Académie a bien voulu m’honorer, ma gratitude était d’autant plus profonde que je mesurais à quel point cette récompense dépassait mes mérites personnels. Tout homme…

Swedish Halldór Laxness’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 Eders Majestäter, Mina damer och herrar, Den kväll på en resa i Sydsverige för några få veckor sedan, då ryktet redan hade mält, att Svenska Akademiens förestående val möjligen kunde gälla mig, och jag hade blivit ensam i…

English Halldór Laxness’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1955 (Translation) I was travelling in the south of Sweden a few weeks ago, when I heard the rumour that the choice of the might possibly fall on me. Alone in my hotel room that night, I naturally began…

  Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950 What Desires Are Politically Important? Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have chosen this subject for my lecture tonight because I think that most current discussions of politics and political theory take insufficient account of psychology. Economic facts, population statistics, constitutional organization, and so on, are set forth…

William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of…

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1938 The Chinese Novel Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I came to consider what I should say today it seemed that it would be wrong not to speak of China. And this is none the less true because I am an American by birth and by ancestry…

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Introductory speech by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich On the Battle Lost English 7 December, 2015 I do not stand alone at this podium … There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood.…