The Nobel Laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded”according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in the case of the Peace Prize, in Oslo on 10 December.
Video Nobel Lectures in Literature
2017
My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs
Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
2016
2015
On the Battle Lost
Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich
2014
Nobel Lecture by Patrick Modiano
2013
Alice Munro: In her Own Words
The 2013 Nobel Lecture in Literature was replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with the Laureate
2012
Storytellers
Nobel Lecture by Mo Yan
2011
A Programme of Texts by Tomas Tranströmer
Nobel Lecture for Tomas Tranströmer
2010
Elogio de la lectura y la ficción (In Praise of Reading and Fiction)
Nobel Lecture by Mario Vargas Llosa
2009
Jedes Wort weiß etwas vom Teufelskreis (Every word knows something of a vicious circle)
Nobel Lecture by Herta Müller
2008
Dans la forêt des paradoxes (In the forest of paradoxes)
Nobel Lecture by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007
On not winning the Nobel Prize
Nobel Lecture by Doris Lessing
2006
Babamın bavulu (My Father’s Suitcase)
Nobel Lecture by Orhan Pamuk
2005
Art, Truth & Politics
Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter
2004
Sidelined
Nobel Lecture by Elfriede Jelinek
2003
He and His Man
Nobel Lecture by J. M. Coetzee
2002
Heureka!
Nobel Lecture by Imre Kertész
2001
Two Worlds
Nobel Lecture by V. S. Naipaul
2000
The Case for Literature
Nobel Lecture by Gao Xingjian
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