List of activities carried out during Nobel Week 2024 that may be of particular interest to media visiting Stockholm to cover this year’s Nobel Prize in literature. More activities might be added. Please look back.
5 december
08:45 The yearly press conference organised by the Nobel Foundation
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town, Stockholm
Accreditation: [email protected]
The programme for Nobel Week 2024 is presented to the media. The Nobel Foundation reveals the chef and pastry chef of this year’s Nobel Prize banquet. Both the chef and the pastry chef will be present.
Exhibition of creations by students from the Beckmans School of Design, who will interpret this year’s Nobel Prize in dresses, including the literature prize.
6 December
10:00–11:00
Guided tour Konserthuset Stockholm (Stockholm Concert Hall)
Konserthuset Stockholm is a neoclassical masterpiece and, every year, the arena for the Nobel Prize award ceremony. Join a guided tour with a special focus on what happens in the building on 10 December when the prizes are being awarded.
Photo and video opportunities for media.
Location: Konserthuset Stockholm, Hötorget (outside at the stairs)
Media accreditation: [email protected]
13:00
Press conference: Nobel Prize laureate in literature Han Kang
Location: Swedish Academy, Börssalen, Källargränd 4, Stockholm
Registration required.
More information: [email protected]
13:45–14:30
Artefacts from the Nobel Prize laureates
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town, Stockholm
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
In the morning, the Nobel Prize laureates gather at the Nobel Prize Museum. As a tradition they hand over an artefact to the museum and sign a chair. The new artefacts will be on display in the museum for media. Curators from the museum will tell the stories of the objects. (The laureates will not participate). Photo and video opportunities for media.
7 December
17:00
Nobel Prize lecture in literature
Location: The Swedish Academy, Börssalen, Källargränd 4, Stockholm
Han Kang will give her Nobel Prize lecture at the Swedish Academy. There is no special media invitation/accreditation, those interested in attending the lecture can be invited as guests. There will be no interviews and no possibility to take photos or make audio recordings during the lecture.
More information: [email protected]
Interviews in the banquet kitchen
Media are welcome to the banquet kitchen in Stockholm City Hall, for interviews with this year’s Chef, Pastry Chef, and Head Chef Gunnar Eriksson. There are opportunities on 7 December and 8 December, between 09:00 and 15:00. All visits need to be booked in advance. Please contact Maria Torén, press officer for Stadshusrestauranger, [email protected] or +46 709 48 99 90.
8 December
Interviews in the banquet kitchen
Media are welcome to the banquet kitchen in Stockholm City Hall, for interviews with this year’s Chef, Pastry Chef, and Head Chef Gunnar Eriksson. There are opportunities on 7 December and 8 December, between 09:00 and 15:00. All visits need to be booked in advance. Please contact Maria Torén, press officer for Stadshusrestauranger, [email protected] or +46 709 48 99 90.
17:00
Literature Night
Location: DE ADERTON (artwork), Klara Mälarstrand
Register through: [email protected]
A beautiful evening of recitals of texts written by female Nobel Prize laureates in literature that are presented in the artwork De Aderton (one of the artworks in Nobel Week Lights). Texts from Grazia Deledda, Annie Ernaux, Han Kang and Olga Tokarczuk will be read in Swedish and their original language by different experts.
(No laureates will participate)
Photo and video opportunities for media.
More information
10 December
16:00
Nobel Prize award ceremony
Location: Konserthuset Stockholm/Stockholm Concert Hall.
Link for media to apply for accreditation
For questions, please contact [email protected]
During the prize award ceremony, the Nobel Prize laureates receive a diploma and medal from HM The King. Speeches are given by representatives from the prize awarding institutions. The speeches can be obtained against embargo via [email protected]
The diplomas will be published on nobelprize.org on 10 December and can be obtained here https://nobelprize.org/press-images-nobel-week-2024
19:00
Nobel Prize banquet
Location: Stockholm City Hall
Link for media to apply for accreditation
For questions, please contact [email protected]
During the banquet, one laureate per award category gives a speech of thanks. The speeches will be published on nobelprize.org on 10 December.
12 December
19:00
Nobel reading with Han Kang at The Royal Dramatic Theatre
As every year, the Royal Dramatic Theater pays attention to this year’s prize laureate in literature with an evening of reading, conversation and music. The evening begins with a conversation about Han Kang’s writing between Yukiko Duke and the author, translator and literary critic Kristoffer Leandoer. Next, a talk between Yukiko and Han Kang. Actors Karin Franz Körlof, Elin Klinga, Livia Millhagen, Magnus Roosmann and Andreas Rothlin Svensson read selected texts. Music with pianist Roland Pöntinen. The event will be in both English and Swedish.
In collaboration with book publishing company Natur och Kultur.
For press accreditation contact Lena Törner: [email protected]
Location: The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Main stage
Throughout Nobel Week
Nobel Week Lights
Nobel Week Lights is an artistic tribute to the Nobel Prize laureates and their achievements. The light installations will be shown outdoors in Stockholm 7 December–15 December, 16:00–22:00.
More information: https://nobelweeklights.se
Sneak peek: Nobel Week Lights
Accreditation for media: [email protected]
Sneak peek of the artworks and meet some of the artists of this year’s Nobel Week Lights. The last preparations are made, and the artworks are tested. Warm clothes and good shoes are recommended. The artwork at the City Hall – Leading Lights – is a tribute to the achievements and discoveries of female Nobel Prize laureates. It includes an image of this year’s literature laureate, Han Kang. She will also be featured in the artwork De Aderton at Klara Mälarstrand.
Photo and video opportunities for media.
There will be two press tours: one on 6 December 16:30–17:30 (a sneak peek the night before it opens, meeting point: Stockholm Klara Mälarstrand, see link to Google Maps) and one on 9 December at 18:00–19:00 (meeting point outside the Grand Hôtel, S. Blasieholmshamnen 8.)
Exhibition: ‘These things changed the world’
For the first time, the Nobel Prize Museum is displaying a large selection of items from its collection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates. These objects tell stories of remarkable discoveries and life achievements. More than 250 artefacts bear witness to revolutionary inventions, courageous peace efforts, groundbreaking ideas and innovative literature.
Location: Nobel Prize Museum, Stortorget 2, Old Town
More information and opening hours
Free entrance for media.
If you wish to have a guided tour, please contact [email protected]
More information
See full press programme here.
Interviews
Han Kang will give interviews in connection to her press conference.
Questions
Please contact [email protected]