Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 8 oktober 2020   Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2020 Louise Glück Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2020 tilldelas den amerikanska poeten Louise Glück ”för hennes omisskännliga poetiska röst, som med sträng skönhet gör den enskilda människans existens universell”.

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 8 October 2020   The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 Louise Glück The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

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Interview with Olga Tokarczuk on 6 December 2019 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Your parents were both teachers. How did that influence you? Olga Tokarczuk: It was really a very good beginning for a writer. The books were very present in our house. I saw from the beginning how my parents are discussing…

Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What does the Nobel Prize mean to you? Kazuo Ishiguro: Until October it was something that very great people, and in my imagination I always thought older people, won. It was not anything I would win. I am going to…

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Kazuo ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on 8th November 1954. The house he lived in for the first five years of his life had been built in the traditional Japanese style, with tatami mats and sliding shoji screens. Early photographs show Ishiguro as a baby, sitting as formally as he was then able, in…

https://youtu.be/Z7q2Miw5j3E Olga Tokarczuk received her Nobel Prize in 2019. Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, 10 December 2019. (pdf)