German Der in Trinidad geborene, britische Schriftsteller V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul wurde 1932 in Chaguanas in der Nähe von Port of Spain auf Trinidad geboren. Seine Familie sind Nachfahren Einwanderer aus dem nördlichen Indien. Der Grossvater war Zurckerrohrarbeiter, der Vater Journalist und Schriftsteller. Im Alter von 18 Jahren begab sich Naipaul nach England, wo er an…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 The Australian Patrick White has been awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”, as it says in the citation. White’s growing fame is based chiefly on seven novels…

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I come from an old and noble house that has given to Russia a good many illustrious persons in politics as well as in the arts, among whom two poets of the early nineteenth century stand out in particular: Anna Búnina and Vasíly Zhukóvsky, one of the great names in Russian literature, the son of…

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. On his father’s side, his grandfather was a prominent liberal intellectual and one of the first authors to write a novel with an expressly Indian theme. Thanks to his grandfather’s extensive library, Paz came into early contact with literature. Like his grandfather, his father was also…

Swedish Dario Fo, en av den moderna farsens och politiska teaterns förgrundsgestalter, föddes 1926 i byn Sangiano (Varese) i Lombardiet, där han tidigt kom i kontakt med folklig teater och berättartradition (farfadern känd fabulatore). Efter konst- och arkitekturstudier i Milano medarbetade Fo vid radion med en serie monologer Poer nano (“Stackars liten”), debuterade 1952 som…

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Announcement by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the Soviet-Russian writer Boris Pasternak for his notable achievement in both contemporary poetry and the field of the great Russian narrative tradition. As is well…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 11, 1990 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 Octavio Paz “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity” This year the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Mexican writer, poet and essayist Octavio Paz, honouring a writer of Spanish with a…