Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974 (in Russian)

Translations into English One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / translated by Max Hayward and Ronald Hingley. – New York : Praeger, 1963 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker. – New York, Dutton, 1963 We Never Make Mistakes : Two Short Novels /…

Artist: Gunnar Brusewitz Calligrapher: Kerstin Anckers

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Norman Borlaug’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1970 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Madam Chairman, Members of the Nobel Committee, Your Excellencies, and Ladies and Gentlemen The requirement of an acceptance speech on this occasion implies that an incipient Nobel Laureate must have…

Banquet speech 1970 As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970, the speech was read by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy (Russian, French, Swedish) Banquet speech 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10,…

As the Laureate was unable to be present at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1970, the speech was read by Karl Ragnar Gierow, Permanent Secretary of The Swedish Academy Translation into French Sire, Mesdames, Messieurs! J’éspère que mon absence involontaire n’assombrira pas la plénitude de la cérémonie d’aujourd’hui. Dans la série des brefs…

A central figure in the “green revolution”, Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25, 1914) was born on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, to Henry and Clara Borlaug. For the past twenty-seven years he has collaborated with Mexican scientists on problems of wheat improvement; for the last ten or so of those years he has also…

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