1975

Nobel Lecture

English Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1975 (Translation) Peace, Progress, Human Rights Honored members of the Nobel Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen. Peace, progress, human rights – these three goals are insolubly linked to one another: it is impossible to achieve one of these goals if the other two are ignored. This is the dominant idea that…

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Banquet speech

Italian Eugenio Montale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 (in Italian) Maestà, Altezze Reali, Signore, Signori, Durante un periodo abbastanza lungo della mia vita oltre vent’anni la libertà di stampa era piuttosto ridotta in Italia. Ma i poeti non erano considerati pericolosi e ad essi era consigliata l’autocensura. Tutt’al più ai poeti si…

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Banquet speech

English Eugenio Montale’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 (Translation) Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, During a fairly long period of my life, for more than 20 years, freedom of press was somewhat reduced in Italy. But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise selfcensorship. At…

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Bibliography

Works in Italian Ossi di seppia. – Turin : Gobetti, 1925. – Enlarged ed., Turin: Fratelli Ribet, 1928 La Casa dei doganieri e altri versi. – Florence : Vallecchi, 1932 Le occasioni. – Turin : Einaudi, 1939 Finisterre. – Lugano, Switzerland : Collana di Lugano, 1943 La bufera e altro. – Venice : Neri Pozza,…

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Poetry

  The Wall To lie in shadow on the lawn By a crumbling wall, pale and withdrawn And spy in the weeds the gliding snake And hear the rustle blackbirds make – To watch in the cracked earth and the grass Battalions of red ants at drill, That break and form ranks, pass and repass…

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Banquet speech

Tjalling C. Koopmans’ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1975 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Also on behalf of my colleague and co-recipient of the 1975 award for economics, I wish to thank the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Foundation, and all our other institutional and personal hosts for the…

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Curriculum Vitae

Born: January 19, 1912, Petersburg (Leningrad), USSR Education: Leningrad University, 1930 Civil Status: Married (to Natalie), two children (D. and S.)     Fellowships and honors 1944 Order Signe of Honor 1949 Order of Labor Red Banner 1949 State Prize 1958 Member-Correspondent, USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician (1964) 1965 Lenin Prize (together with V.V. Novogilov…

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