Kim Dae Jung gives his Nobel Lecture. © Pressens Bild AB 2000, SE-112 88 Stockholm, Sweden, telephone: +46 (0)8 738 38 00. Photo: Lise Aserud Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2000 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Human rights and peace have a sacred ground in…

The 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine rewarded three scientists who deciphered the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain’s most important functions. The primary switches for these processes are neurotransmitters: chemical messengers sent from one nerve cell to another across the tiny junctions, or synapses, that separate them. Arvid Carlsson overturned conventional…

Gao Xingjian’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2000 (in French) Vos Majestés, Vos Altesses royales, Mesdames, Messieurs, L’homme qui est devant vous se souvient encore qu’à l’âge de huit ans, sa mère lui avait demandé de tenir un journal. II s’est ainsi consacré à l’écriture jusqu’à l’âge adulte. II se souvient encore qu’à…

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Excerpt from One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian English Excerpt from One Man’s Bible 54 You no longer live in other people’s shadows nor treat other people’s shadows as imaginary enemies. You just walked out of their shadows, stopped making up absurdities and fantasies, and are now…

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Artist: Bo Larsson Calligrapher: Annika Rücker

English 10 December 2000 The Case for Literature I have no way of knowing whether it was fate that has pushed me onto this dais but as various lucky coincidences have created this opportunity I may as well call it fate. Putting aside discussion of the existence or non-existence…

Works in Chinese Xiandai xiaoshuo jiqiao chutan. – Guangzhou : Huacheng, 1981 You zhi gezi jiao Hongchunr. – Beijing : Beijing Publishing House, 1985 Gao Xingjian xiju ji. – Beijing : Qunzhong, 1985 Dui yizhong xiandai xiju de zhuiqiu. – Beijing : China Theater Publishing House, 1988 Gei wo laoye mai yugan. – Taipei :…