The Nobel Prize 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.
Videos of Nobel Prize lectures in literature
2020
Writing
Nobel Prize lecture by Abdulrazak Gurnah
2019
Nobel Prize lecture by Peter Handke
2018
Czuły narrator (The Tender Narrator)
Nobel Prize lecture by Olga Tokarczuk
2017
My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs
Nobel Prize lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro
2016
Nobel Prize lecture by Bob Dylan
2015
On the Battle Lost
Nobel Prize lecture by Svetlana Alexievich
2014
Nobel Prize lecture by Patrick Modiano
2013
Alice Munro: In her Own Words
The 2013 Nobel Prize lecture in literature was replaced by a pre-recorded video conversation with the laureate
2012
Storytellers
Nobel Prize lecture by Mo Yan
2011
A Programme of Texts by Tomas Tranströmer
Nobel Prize lecture for Tomas Tranströmer
2010
Elogio de la lectura y la ficción (In Praise of Reading and Fiction)
Nobel Prize lecture by Mario Vargas Llosa
2009
Jedes Wort weiß etwas vom Teufelskreis (Every word knows something of a vicious circle)
Nobel Prize lecture by Herta Müller
2008
Dans la forêt des paradoxes (In the forest of paradoxes)
Nobel Prize lecture by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007
On not winning the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize lecture by Doris Lessing
2006
Babamın bavulu (My Father’s Suitcase)
Nobel Prize lecture by Orhan Pamuk
2005
Art, Truth & Politics
Nobel Prize lecture by Harold Pinter
2004
Sidelined
Nobel Prize lecture by Elfriede Jelinek
2003
He and His Man
Nobel Prize lecture by J. M. Coetzee
2002
Heureka!
Nobel Prize lecture by Imre Kertész
2001
Two Worlds
Nobel Prize lecture by V. S. Naipaul
2000
The Case for Literature
Nobel Prize lecture by Gao Xingjian
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Lectures with Nobel Peace Prize laureates
Lectures with laureates in economic sciences