Nobel Prize

French Le secrétaire perpétuel Communiqué de presse Le 8 octobre 2009 Prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2009 Herta Müller Le prix Nobel de littérature pour l’année 2009 est attribué à l’auteur allemand Herta Müller « qui avec la concentration de la poésie et l’objectivé de la prose dessine les paysages de l’abandon ».

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 When Vicente Aleixandre published his first volume of verse in 1928, Ambito, he was already closely associated personally with the greatly gifted Spanish poets who have given this epoch in Spanish literature the name, “The Second Golden Age”. In its conception of…

English Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release September 30, 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature 1999 Günter Grass “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history” When Günter Grass published “The Tin Drum” in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 12 October 2006 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 Orhan Pamuk The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2006 is awarded to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures”.…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 8 October 2009 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 Herta Müller The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”.

Announcement by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen: This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy to the Soviet-Russian writer Boris Pasternak for his notable achievement in both contemporary poetry and the field of the great Russian narrative tradition. As is well…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature made his debut in 1949. A selective bibliography from January 1972 on works by, and about, Heinrich Böll lists some forty volumes from his own hand, disregarding reprints and new editions. Last in…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 11, 1990 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 Octavio Paz “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity” This year the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Mexican writer, poet and essayist Octavio Paz, honouring a writer of Spanish with a…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release The Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 The Australian Patrick White has been awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”, as it says in the citation. White’s growing fame is based chiefly on seven novels…

Swedish Academy The Permanent Secretary Press release October 8, 1992 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 Derek Walcott “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment” This year the Swedish Academy has decided to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to Derek Walcott. Walcott, who…