1992

Nobel Lecture

English Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1992 (Translation) Your Majesties, the King and Queen of Norway,The Honorable Members of the Nobel Peace Committee,Your Excellency, the Prime Minister,Your Excellencies, Members of the Government and the Diplomatic Corps,Dear Guatemalan countrymen and women,Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having…

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Nobel Lecture

Spanish Acceptance and Nobel Lecture, December 10, 1992 (in Spanish) Honorables señores del Comité Nobel de la Paz,Sus majestades los Reyes de Noruega,Excelentísima señora Primer Ministro,Excelentísimos miembros de gobiernos y del Cuerpo Diplomático,Apreciables compatriotas guatemaltecos,Señoras y señores. Me llena de emoción y orgullo la distinción que se me hace al otorgarme el Premio Nobel de…

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Banquet speech

Gary S. Becker’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to express my gratitude to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the superb honor conferred on me. It is not necessary to have special reasons to be happy to be here, but…

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Bibliography

Verse 25 Poems. – Port-of-Spain : Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948 Epitaph for the Young. Xll Cantos. – Bridgetown : Barbados Advocate, 1949 Poems. – Kingston, Jamaica : City Printery, 1951 In a Green Night. Poems 1948–60. – London : Cape, 1962 Selected Poems. – New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1964 The Castaway and Other…

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Poetry

Two poems by Derek Walcott Sea Grapes That sail which leans on light, tired of islands, a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home, could be Odysseus, home-bound on the Aegean; that father and husband’s longing, under gnarled sour grapes, is like the adulterer hearing Nausicaa’s name in every gull’s outcry. This…

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Banquet speech

Derek Walcott’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1992 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Representatives of the Nobel Foundation, Honourable Members of the Academies, the Karolinska Institute and Election Committees, Students, Ladies and Gentlemen, The honour that you pay me is accepted in the one name that comprises all of the supposedly broken…

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