Presentation Speech by Professor Göran Malmqvist of the , December 10, 2000. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Göran Malmqvist delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Gao Xingjian’s literary output comprises eighteen plays, two great…

Presentation Speech by Torgny Lindgren of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Writer Torgny Lindgren delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The realities that are the subject of Imre Kertész’s literary…

English Presentation Speech by Per Wästberg, Writer, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2010. Per Wästberg delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, esteemed Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mario Vargas Llosa’s writing…

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Böök, Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, on December 10, 1929 If one asks which innovation the nineteenth century made in the field of literature, which new form it created in addition to the old forms of epic, drama, and lyric, whose roofs are in Greece, the answer must be:…

  Presentation Speech by Dr. Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel prizewinner in literature, Vicente Aleixandre, is hard to understand and in one way controversial. The latter may be due to the former. For even his devoted admirers offer varying…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Member of the Nobel Committee of the on December 10, 1931 If an interested foreigner were to ask one of Erik Axel Karlfeldt’s countrymen what we admire most in this poet and on what qualities his national greatness depends, it would at first seem easy to give an answer. People…

Presentation Speech by Dr. Horace Engdahl of the , December 10, 1999. Translation of the Swedish text. Dr. Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Photo: Hans Mehlin, Nobelprize.org Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen, These days, we often hear talk of…

Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Anders Olsson, ledamot av , 10 december 2009. Professor Anders Olsson presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2009 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Det finns litteratur som först långsamt, steg för steg, uppenbarar sina djupa kvaliteter. Och så finns det litteratur som omedelbart fångar…

Presentation Speech by S. Siwertz, Member of the Very seldom have great statesmen and warriors also been great writers. One thinks of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, and even Napoleon, whose letters to Josephine during the first Italian campaign certainly have passion and splendour. But the man who can most readily be compared with Sir Winston…

  Presentation Speech by Karl Ragnar Gierow, of the (Translation) Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, No great writer gains lustre from a Nobel Prize. It is the Nobel Prize that gains lustre from the recipient – provided the right one has been chosen. But who is the right one? According to Nobel’s…