Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge of the , Oslo, December 10, 2002. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and – not least – this year’s Laureate, Jimmy Carter: In one of his volumes, the Norwegian poet Kolbein Falkeid writes: Do not hang splendid moments up on the walls in your…

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I was born in Aarberg, Switzerland, on October 4, 1938, and during my childhood I lived in the small town of Lyss in the Berner Seeland. At the time this was a rural area of farmland, forests and rivers. The roots of the Wüthrich family are in an even more rural, mountainous area, the farming…

Imre Kertész: A Medium for the Spirit of Auschwitz by Madeleine Gustafsson This article was published on 17 November 2003. Imre Kertész was born in Budapest on November 9, 1929. Not yet fifteen years old, he was deported together with 7,000 other Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, and thence to Buchenwald, where he was liberated in…

English Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002 (Translation) Today we are experiencing a globalization, an inflation of the Holocaust. The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering, observes it all from the perspective assigned to him.…

German Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002 Wir erleben heute eine Globalisierung, ja eine Inflation des Holocaust. Der Holocaust-Überlebende, der Auschwitz aus lebendiger Erfahrung kennt, beobachtet das alles aus der ihm zugewiesenen Ecke. Er schweigt, oder er gibt der…

Interview, May 2014 Interview with 2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Kurt Wüthrich, 27 May 2014. Trading swimming lessons for lab time. Grabbing Max Perutz’ attention. Kurt Wüthrich’s intense collaboration with Richard Ernst. Kurt Wüthrich’s work in simple terms. “Breakthroughs are unexpected.” Doubts and criticism from other scientists. Being…

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Interview transcript Welcome. I’m Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Professor of Economics at the Umeå University. Next to me is Anne-Sophie Crepin who holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University. Together we have the pleasure of interviewing the winners of the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners…