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English Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 (Translation) In carrying out the high duties entrusted to it, the Nobel Committee of the has this year awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a signal mark of honour on the international scene, to a writer from a…

French Ivo Andrić’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1961 Sire, Madame, Altesses Royales, Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs. Cette année, le Comité Nobel de l’Académie Suédoise, en s’acquittant des hautes fonctions qui lui ont été confiées, vient d’attribuer à un écrivain d’un petit pays – comme on dit…

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Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee The of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Peace Prize for 1961 posthumously to Dag Hammarskjöld. Dag Hammarskjöld was born in 1905, and prior to his appointment as Secretary-General to the Secretariat of the United Nations in 1953, he had been associated with the administration…

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (July 29, 1905-September 18, 1961) was the youngest of four sons of Agnes (Almquist) Hammarskjöld and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, prime minister of Sweden, member of the Hague Tribunal, governor of Uppland, chairman of the Board of the . In a brief piece written for a radio program in 1953, Dag Hammarskjöld…