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…

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…

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…

Interview transcript Mr Hume, thank you for coming here today. First of all I would like to know, when you got that phone call back in 1998, what did you think when they called you and told you that you were going to be the Prize winner? John Hume: I was obviously…

Interview transcript My name is Bertil Holmlund. I am interviewing the two Laureates in Economic Sciences this year: Professor Daniel McFadden from University of California at the Berkley and Professor James Heckman from University of Chicago. They have received the Prize for their contributions to micro econometrics, which is a field on…

Interview transcript My name is Bertil Holmlund. I am interviewing the two Laureates in Economic Sciences this year: Professor Daniel McFadden from University of California at the Berkley and Professor James Heckman from University of Chicago. They have received the Prize for their contributions to micro econometrics, which is…

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,…

Interview transcript Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour to meet you. Robert Fogel: It’s a great pleasure to be here. I wanted to start off, to ask you a little bit about your background. Your parents were immigrants to the United States in the early 1920s.…

Interview transcript Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Literature Laureate 1991, welcome to our interview. Nadine Gordimer: Thank you. From what origins did Nadine Gordimer come to be born in a gold mining town in South Africa? Nadine Gordimer: The usual sort of background for whites in South Africa. My mother came from England and…

Interview transcript (in French) Bonjour, je m’appelle Horace Engdahl et j’exercise la fonction de secrétaire perpétuel à l’Académie Suédoise, et je souhaite le bienvenu au Lauréat du Prix Nobel de Littérature de l’année 2000, Monsieur Gao Xingjian. Gao Xingjian: Bonjour. Gao Xingjian … Quand on a commencé de vous lire à l’Occident…