Literature
Biobibliografisk notis
Bio-bibliography
Swedish Biobibliografisk notis Elfriede Jelinek är född den 20 oktober 1946 i staden Mürzzuschlag i det österrikiska landskapet Steiermark. Fadern, med tjeckisk-judiskt ursprung, var kemist och under andra världskriget verksam som forskare i krigsviktig industri och undgick därigenom förföljelse. Modern kom från en välbärgad familj i Wien, där Elfriede Jelinek växte upp och gick i…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1918
Summary
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreHenri Bergson – Biographical
Biographical
Henri Bergson (1859-1941), the son of a Jewish musician and an English woman, was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Normale Supérieure, where he studied philosophy. After a teaching career as a schoolmaster in various secondary schools, Bergson was appointed to the École Normale Supérieure in 1898 and, from 1900 to 1921, held…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1901 When Alfred Nobel decided to make the great donation which has justly received much attention, his entire life’s work led him to favour the study of nature and to reward discoveries in some of the sciences concerned with it. Likewise,…
moreAward ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the The Nobel Prize laureate in literature for this year bears a name of unusual sound, which he chose at first to protect himself from the curious. Saint-John Perse is the poet’s name that was to be made internationally famous by a private man who in civil…
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