Nobel Prize

English Introductory speech, 7 December 2015, by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Ladies and gentlemen – I bid you a warm welcome to the Swedish Academy! Two months ago, in early October, here in the Grand Hall, just before one o’clock in the afternoon, a multitude of journalists had gathered, eager to…

French Le 7 décembre 2015 À propos d’une bataille perdue Je ne suis pas toute seule sur cette tribune … Je suis entourée de voix, des centaines de voix, elles sont toujours avec moi. Depuis mon enfance. Je vivais à la campagne. Nous, les enfants, nous aimions bien jouer dehors, mais le soir nous étions…

English Presentation Speech by Writer, PhD Jesper Svenbro, Member of the , 10 December 2014. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Barely a decade into Patrick Modiano’s oeuvre…

The first sixty-nine years of my life are summed up here, as far as I can remember them. I was born on 30 July 1945 in France, at 11 allée Marguerite, Boulogne-Billancourt, close to Paris. My brother Rudy was born on 5 October 1947. Until the age of four I was brought up by my…

Alice Munro by Robert Thacker Alice Laidlaw Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada on July 10, 1931, the eldest child of Robert Eric Laidlaw (1901–76), a fox farmer, and Anne Clarke Chamney Laidlaw (1898–1959), a former schoolteacher. Members of her father’s family, having emigrated to Upper Canada from the Ettrick Valley on the Scottish…

William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for…

Presentation Speech by Gustaf Hellström, Member of the , December 10, 1950 William Faulkner is essentially a regional writer, and as such reminds Swedish readers now and then of two of our own most important novelists, and Hjalmar Bergman. Faulkner’s Värmland is the northern part of the state of Mississippi and his Vadköping is called…

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