“During almost 100 years that the Nobel Foundation has been responsible for the festival, certain years have been especially glittering”

From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901

“In the days leading up to the awarding of prizes, there was tension in the air”

“Our train approached Stockholm through a countryside freshly covered by a heavy snowfall. Every scene looked like a Christmas card”

Childhood Memories of Early Nobel Ceremonies and Laureates

“It was almost with a little trembling that I went in and shook the hand of Pavlov – a warmly smiling little white-bearded man”

“The conductor was standing with his back to the end of our table, with the singers facing us”