Norman Borlaug’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1970 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Madam Chairman, Members of the Nobel Committee, Your Excellencies, and Ladies and Gentlemen The requirement of an acceptance speech on this occasion implies that an incipient Nobel Laureate must have…

Introductory speech by Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Nobel Lecture by Svetlana Alexievich On the Battle Lost English 7 December, 2015 I do not stand alone at this podium … There are voices around me, hundreds of voices. They have always been with me, since childhood.…

English 7 December, 2014 I would simply like to tell you how happy I am to be here with you and how touched I am by the honour you have done me in awarding me the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is the first time I have had to…

Ers Majestäter, Ers Kungliga högheter, Excellenser, Kära pristagare, Mina damer och herrar, Jag tackar för äran att ha tilldelats Nobelpriset i kemi tillsammans med professor Modrich och professor Sancar. The topic of my brief comments will be the crucial importance of our early mentors and teachers. I had the privilege of attending…

English Svetlana Alexievich’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2015 (translation into English). I would like to thank the Swedish Academy for this distinguished award, which I dare not claim as mine alone. Rather, I see it as a tribute to the many generations who not so very long ago lived…

Your majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom. I searched the…

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Martin Luther King’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 10 December 1964 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America…

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English (pdf, 291 kB) Nobel Lecture by Malala Yousafzai, Oslo, 10 December 2014. Bismillah hir rahman ir rahim. In the name of God, the most merciful, the most beneficent. Your Majesties, Your royal highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Dear sisters and brothers, today is a day of great happiness…