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The 14th Dalai Lama’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1989. Your Majesty, Members of the Nobel Committee, Brothers and Sisters: I am very happy to be here with you today to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. I feel honoured,…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989 Brothers and Sisters: It is an honour and pleasure to be among you today. I am really happy to see so many old friends who have come from different corners of the world, and to make new friends, whom I hope to meet again in the future. When I meet…

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English Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1989 (Translation) Eulogy to the Fable Distinguished Academicians, My old friend and mentor Pío Baroja – who did not receive the Nobel Prize because the bright light of success does not always fall on the righteous – had a clock on his wall. Around the face of that clock there…

Camilo José Cela’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Swedish Academy is honouring me by inscribing my name in the margins of the roll of illustrious personages of contemporary world literature. It is an honour which is out of all proportion to…

Interview transcript Who or what come first, the chicken or the egg? Welcome to meet Tom Cech, the Nobel Laureate of 1989, when he got the Prize together with Sidney Altman to solve just this question. Before Tom Cech and Sidney Altman, everyone was firmly convinced that the genetic machinery needed a…

Spanish Conferencia de Nobel 1989 Elogio de la Fabula Señores académicos Mi viejo amigo y maestro Pió Baroja, que se quedó sin el Premio Nobel porque la candelita del acierto no siempre alumbra la cabeza del justo, tenía un reloj de pared en cuya esfera lucían unas palabras aleccionadoras, un lema estremecedor que señalaba el…