Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the small town of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia, between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. He grew up with his maternal grandparent – his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to…

Spanish Nobel Lecture, 8 December, 1982 La soledad de America Latina Antonio Pigafetta, un navegante florentino que acompañó a Magallanes en el primer viaje alrededor del mundo, escribió a su paso por nuestra América meridional una crónica rigurosa que sin embargo parece una aventura de la imaginación. Contó que había visto cerdos con el ombligo…

English Nobel Lecture, 8 December, 1982 (Translation) The solitude of Latin America Antonio Pigafetta, a Florentine navigator who went with Magellan on the first voyage around the world, wrote, upon his passage through our southern lands of America, a strictly accurate account that nonetheless resembles a venture into fantasy. In it he recorded that he…

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Alva Myrdal was born in Uppsala in 1902, graduated from University in 1924, and married the same year. Together with her husband she made a major contribution in the 1930s to the work of promoting social welfare. They were joint authors of a book entitled “The population problem in crisis”, and she was also actively…

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Interview transcript Professor Aaron Klug, welcome to Stockholm and to this Nobel interview. You are one of more than 20 Nobel Prize winners that have done a big part of the research work in Cambridge. Aaron Klug: Yes. Can you tell us about your first years there? Aaron Klug: Well, I came…

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