Literature
Nelly Sachs – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
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…
moreNelly Sachs – Bibliography
Bibliography
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. –…
moreSvetlana Alexievich – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma
Artist: Jens Fänge Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
English Presentation Speech by Writer Pär Wästberg, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2015. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Alfred Nobel wanted the prize to go to the person who produced “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. Svetlana Alexievich has met…
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