Nobel Prize

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 12 oktober 2000 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2000 Gao Xingjian Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2000 går till den kinesiskspråkige författaren Gao Xingjian “för ett verk av universell giltighet, bitter insikt och språklig sinnrikhet, som öppnat nya vägar för kinesisk romankonst och dramatik”. I Gao Xingjians författarskap återföds litteraturen ur individens kamp…

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…

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 11 octobre 2001 Prix Nobel de littérature 2001 V. S. Naipaul Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2001 est attribué à l’écrivain britannique, né en Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul « pour avoir mêlé narration perceptive et observation incorruptible dans des œuvres qui nous condamnent à voir la présence…

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 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…