Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the , on December 10, 1922 Jacinto Benavente has devoted his imaginative gifts mainly to the theatre, and it seems as if he has systematically guided the course of his development in this direction through many varieties of experience. But with this imaginative artist,…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the , December 10, 1945 Today Johannes V. Jensen will receive in person the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1944, and we are happy to salute the great Danish writer who since the beginning of the century has been in the front rank, always active, for a…

  Presentation Speech by Professor Sture Allén, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, On the Nobel Day, 10th December, 1911, received that year’s Nobel Prize in Literature from the hands of King Gustavus V here in Stockholm. On the following day Naguib Mahfouz was born in…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Lars Thelander of , December 10, 2004. Professor Lars Thelander delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Laureates in Chemistry are being rewarded for their discovery of life’s own…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the On the first page of the remarkable journal kept by André Gide for half a century, the author, then twenty years old, finds himself on the sixth floor of a building in the Latin Quarter, looking for a meeting place for «The Symbolists», the group of…

Presentation Speech by Professor Bertil Andersson of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Life requires energy. Our muscles require energy when we move. We need energy to think. Energy input is required for the production of new biological molecules. This year’s three Nobel…

Presentation Speech by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry of Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The proteins are among the most complicated and enigmatic substances in Nature and appear to be particularly closely related to all that we call Life. To this group of key substances belong for example…

Swedish Presentationstal av författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2007. Författaren Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2007 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Doris Lessing hör både till litteraturhistorien och till den levande litteraturen. Hon har bidragit…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the In a youthful manifesto of 1913 entitled Ordkonst och bildkonst [Verbal Art and Pictorial Art], Pär Lagerkvist, whose name was then unknown, had the audacity to find fault with the decadence of the literature of his time which, according to him, did not answer the requirements…

Swedish Presentationstal av Författaren Kjell Espmark, ledamot av och ledamot i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2011. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Tomas Tranströmer är en av de mycket få svenska författare som haft ett inflytande på världslitteraturen. Han är översatt till ett sextiotal språk och har varit viktig…