Transcript from an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa during his visit to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 23 May 2014. Who has most inspired you as a writer? Mario Vargas Llosa: I had of course the models of great writers and many … very important for me was the case of Flaubert for example.…

German “Die Sprache hat andere Augen” Transcript of the telephone interview with Herta Müller immediately following the announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, 8 October 2009. The interview was recorded minutes after the announcement and conducted in Müller’s native German. The interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. [Herta Müller] Hallo … [Marika Griehsel]…

“This is the best tool to see how molecules are working” Transcript of the telephone interview with Arieh Warshel following the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 9 October 2013. The interviewer is Nobelprize.org’s Adam Smith. [AW] Hello [AS] Oh hello may I speak to Arieh Warshel please? [AW] Speaking. [AS] Hello…

Transcript from an interview with Derek Walcott on 28 April 2005. Interviewer is freelance journalist Simon Stanford. Derek Walcott, welcome to the interview. You were the Nobel Literature Laureate in 1992. Tell us where did it all start? What unique combination of circumstances gave Derek Walcott…

Transcript from an interview with Doris Lessing on 14 April 2008. The interviewer is Professor John Mullan. Hello, I’m John Mullan, I’m Professor of English at University College London and I’m here to talk to Doris Lessing, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for…

Transcript from an interview with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio on 6 December 2008. Interviewer is Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. My name is Horace Engdahl, I’m the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy and I have here beside me the Laureate…

Theodor Hänsch during the interview in Lindau. Transcript from an interview with Theodor W. Hänsch, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Theodor Hänsch, welcome. We’re here in Lindau, on Lake Constance, for the Lindau Nobel Meeting,…

Transcript from an interview with Mairead Corrigan Maguire on 1 September 2006, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Mrs Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, thank you for being with us here today. It’s 30 years since you really really got…

Transcript from an interview with Professor Robert W. Fogel at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour…