Nobel Prize

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…

  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.…

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…

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…

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…