Swedish Günter Grass född 1927 i Danzig-Langfuhr av polsk-tyska föräldrar. Efter krigstjänst och amerikansk fångenskap 1944-46 arbetade han som lant- och gruvarbetare, studerade konst i Düsseldorf och Berlin. Försörjde sig 1956-59 som skulptör, grafiker och författare i Paris, därefter i Berlin. Grass inträdde 1955 i den samhällskritiska Gruppe 47 (senare hyllad i Mötet i Telgte),…

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Presentation Speech by Per Hallström Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1938 Pearl Buck once told how she had found her mission as interpreter to the West of the nature and being of China. She did not turn to it as a literary speciality at all; it came to her naturally. «It is…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 12 October 2006 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 Orhan Pamuk The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006 is awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”.…

Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen on, he travelled and lived abroad, chiefly on the European continent. He was influenced by expressionism and other modern currents in Germany and France. In the mid-twenties he was converted…

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Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1921 Anatole France was no longer a young man when, in 1881, he captured the attention of the literary public in France and subsequently in the civilized world with his curious novel, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. He had behind him a long…

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