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Henry Kissinger did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

  Le Duc Tho did not submit a biography.

As the Laureate was unable to be present on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1973, the acceptance was read by Thomas R. Byrne, Ambassador of the United States to Norway The Nobel Peace Prize is as much an award to a purpose as to a person.…

Patrick White did not deliver a Nobel Lecture.

I was born in Springside, a village close to Todmorden in west Yorkshire on July 14th, 1921. The house where I was born and indeed most of the village has been demolished by the local council as being unfit for habitation. My father, and his father, also Geoffrey, were both master house painters and decorators,…

Works in English Poetry Thirteen Poems / under the pseudonym Patrick Victor Martindale. – Sydney : Privately printed, ca. 1929 The Ploughman and Other Poems. – Sydney : Beacon Press, 1935 Poems. – Victoria, B.C. : Soft Press, 1974   Novels Happy Valley. – London : Harrap, 1939 The Living and the Dead. – London…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1973, the speech was read by M. Sidney Nolan Your Majesty, and Gentlemen of the Swedish Academy, It is with great regret that I cannot revisit Stockholm on such an occasion as today. But to…

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Geoffrey Wilkinson’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1973 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, My Fellow Students, It is an old English convention that experienced speakers always begin by saying “unaccustomed as I am to public speaking”. In my case it is really true and when I was given the honour…