German Der ständige Sekretär Pressemitteilung 11. Oktober 2001 Der Nobelpreis in Literatur des Jahres 2001 V. S. Naipaul Den Literaturnobelpreis des Jahres 2001 erhält der in Trinidad geborene, britische Schriftsteller V.S. Naipaul „ für seine Werke, die hellhöriges Erzählen und unbestechliches Beobachten vereinen, und uns zwingen, die Gegenwart verdrängter Geschichte zu sehen”. V.S. Naipaul ist…

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 11 oktober 2001 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 V. S. Naipaul Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 går till den på Trinidad födde brittiske författaren V.S. Naipaul ”för att ha förenat lyhört berättande och omutlig iakttagelse i verk som dömer oss att se den bortträngda historiens närvaro”. V.S. Naipaul är en litterär…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 7 October 2004 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 Elfriede Jelinek The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2004 is awarded to the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek “for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 11 October 2001 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 V. S. Naipaul The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2001 is awarded to the British writer, born in Trinidad, V. S. Naipaul “for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of…

The following account of the work of Romain Rolland is by Sven Söderman, Swedish Critic Romain Rolland was born on January 29, 1866, in the district of Nièvre. He studied literature, music, and philosophy, and in 1895 he published two doctoral theses: Les Origines du théâtre lyrique moderne, an erudite and penetrating work which was…

has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1983 to Lech Wałęsa. In reaching this decision the Committee has taken into account Wałęsa’s contribution, made with considerable personal sacrifice, to ensure the workers’ right to establish their own organisations. This contribution is of vital importance in the wider campaign to secure the universal freedom to organise…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1991 to Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma’s liberation leader Aung San and showed an early interest in Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent protest. After having long refrained…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1994, in alphabetical order, to Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. For several decades, the conflict between Israel and its neighbour states, and between Israelis and Palestinians, has been among the most irreconcilable and menacing…

has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. Thirty years ago Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city. The Roman Catholic order of which she…

has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1998 to John Hume and David Trimble for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Over the past thirty years, the national, religious and social conflict in Northern Ireland has cost over 3,500 people their lives. John Hume has throughout…