Professor Anders Olsson delivering the presentation speech for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature at Konserthuset Stockholm, 10 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud. English Presentation Speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2019. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Esteemed Nobel Laureates, Ladies…

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The Tender Narrator https://youtu.be/VvZAXL28K2E Olga Tokarczuk delivered her Nobel Lecture in Literature on Saturday 7 December 2019 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2019General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2019, 16.45 CET. Publication in periodicals or books otherwise than in summary…

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Excerpts from Flights   HERE I AM I’m а few years old. I’m sitting on the window sill, surrounded by strewn toys and toppled-over block towers and dolls with bulging eyes. It’s dark in the house, and the air in the rooms slowly cools, dims. There’s no one else here; they’ve left, they’re gone, though…

Excerpt from Repetition Alone during the day, in my room or out of doors, I thought аbout the waiter more than about my раrеnts; as I now realize, it was а kind of love. I had nо desire for contact, I wanted only to bе near him, and I missed him on his day off.…

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/h06_Ds36zZY Peter Handke delivered his Nobel Lecture in Literature on Saturday 7 December 2019 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2019 General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2019, 5:30 p.m. CET. Publication in periodicals or books otherwise than in summary requires…