Nobel Prize

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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Artist: Jens Fänge Calligrapher: Annika Rücker Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom

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…

Swedish Presentationstal av författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2015. Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Alfred Nobel önskade ett pris till den som skriver “det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning”. Svetlana Aleksijevitj har uppfyllt hans begäran. Utopins röster – den svit av fem böcker…

English 7 December, 2015 On the Battle Lost I do not stand alone at this podium … There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood. I grew up in the countryside. As children, we loved to play outdoors, but come evening, the voices of tired village women…