Transcript from an interview with Derek Walcott on 28 April 2005. Interviewer is freelance journalist Simon Stanford. Derek Walcott, welcome to the interview. You were the Nobel Literature Laureate in 1992. Tell us where did it all start? What unique combination of circumstances gave Derek Walcott…

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Interview transcript Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Literature Laureate 1986, welcome to our interview. Wole Soyinka: Thank you. Let’s start right at the very beginning. What were the circumstances of your birth, your early upbringing? Wole Soyinka: I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up…

Interview transcript Professor Solow, very welcome to this interview. Professor Robert Solow: Thank you. I’m honoured to meet you. Professor Robert Solow: Yes, thank you, it’s a pleasure. Your lecture here in Lindau has been about low wage workers in high income countries. That is a typical Western World scenario. In Germany,…

Interview transcript Professor William Sharpe, most welcome to this interview. William F. Sharpe: Thank you very much; it’s a delight to be here. Very pleased to see you here. How did you react that morning, I think it would have been, when they called you and said that you had been awarded…

Interview transcript Professor Selten, very welcome to this interview here in Lindau. My very first question would really be about the day ten years back when the telephone rang and you were told that you were to be given the Economy Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and you were to share…

Interview transcript Professor John Nash, very welcome to this interview. It’s an honour to have you with us. John Nash: Thank you. It has passed ten years since you received the Economics Prize. What impact has it had on your professional and maybe on your private life over the last ten years?…

Interview transcript Professor Mundell, first of all, congratulations to the reward. Professor Robert A. Mundell: Thank you. And second, you’re very welcome now to the Nobel Foundation for this discussion or conversation. You were rewarded for, in particular, having provided the basic tool of analysis or model to help us understand how…

Interview transcript Sir James Mirrlees, very welcome to this interview. We’re very happy to have you here with us. James Mirrlees: Thank you. I just want to start off with some memories from 1996, the day that you were told that you were to receive the Economy Prize. What were your thoughts?…

Transcript of the interview [Doris Lessing] – Hello. [Adam Smith] – Good morning, may I speak to Doris Lessing please? [DL] – Who is that? [AS] – This is Adam Smith from the Nobel Foundation’s website. We have a tradition of recording very short interviews on the telephone with…