Nobel Prize

English 7 December, 2014 I would simply like to tell you how happy I am to be here with you and how touched I am by the honour you have done me in awarding me the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is the first time I have had to…

The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife Jennie Jerome, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments…

Russian/Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2015. Я благодарю Шведскую академию за высокую награду, которую не смею себе присвоить, я понимаю ее, как поклон многим поколениям советских людей, которые еще недавно жили вместе в огромной стране СССР – марксистской лаборатории светлого будущего.Как поклон их страданиям, их боли. Они уходили ив…

English Svetlana Alexievich’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2015 (translation into English). I would like to thank the Swedish Academy for this distinguished award, which I dare not claim as mine alone. Rather, I see it as a tribute to the many generations who not so very long ago lived…

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English Nelly Sachs’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1966 (Translation) In the summer of 1939 a German girl friend of mine went to Sweden to visit , to ask her to secure a sanctuary for my mother and myself in that country. Since my youth I had…

Works in German Legenden und Erzaehlungen. – Meier, 1921 In den Wohnungen des Todes. – Aufbau, 1946 Sternverdunkelung. – Bermann-Fischer, 1949 Eli : Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels. – S.n., 1951 Und niemand weiss weiter. – Ellerman, 1957 Flucht und Verwandlung. – Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1959 Fahrt ins Staublose : Die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs. –…

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