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Interview transcript Your prize is the only peace prize, certainly, that has been explicitly given concerning genocide and the need of remembrance. There have been some prizes in literature, , , dealing with holocaust literature where I think in peace prize you are the only one and I wonder what your perspective…

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…

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I was born in San Jose, California on June 18, 1932, the first of six children of Robert and Dorothy Herschbach. My father was then a building contractor and later a rabbit breeder. His family had lived in this part of California for three generations; although our surname comes from a pair of villages in…

4 photos   To cite this pageMLA style: “Photo gallery – The Nobel Banquet 1986”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.

Presentation Speech by Professor Ingemar Ståhl of the Translation from the Swedish text Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Laureate of this year, James Buchanan of George Mason University, has been awarded the Prize for his development of the contractarian and constitutional foundations for the theory of economic and political decision-making. This…

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