Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1942
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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
moreSamuel Beckett – Biographical
Biographical
Bio-bibliographic information 1906 – Born in Dublin of Irish parents 1927 – B.A. Trinity College, Dublin 1928-29 – English reader at École Normale Supérieure, Paris 1930 – French reader at Trinity College, Dublin 1938 – Moved to France 1945 – Began writing in French 1989 – Died in Paris Samuel Beckett died…
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Patrick White – Existential explorer
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Patrick White – Existential explorer by Karin Hansson Nobel Prize When Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the Swedish Academy’s commendation referred to the author’s epic and psychological narrative art as having introduced a new continent into literature. This standpoint may seem surprising now, but at that time it was…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the The student of François Mauriac’s works will be struck from the very first by the insistence with which Mauriac devotes himself to describing a precise milieu, a corner of land one can point to on a map of France. The action of his novels nearly always…
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