I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany and only German was spoken there. After the second world war Breslau became Polish and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war. Heavy…

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Yasser Arafat delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Translation from the Arabic text by D. Karara Your Majesty King Harald, Your Majesty Queen Sonja, Professor Sejersted – Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, A quote from the Holy Koran, “Then if they should…

Shimon Peres delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Your Majesties, Members of the Nobel Committee, Prime Minister Brundtland, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Chairman Arafat, Members of the Norwegian Government, Distinguished Guests, I thank the Nobel Prize Committee for its decision to name me among the laureates of the Peace…

Yitzhak Rabin delivering his Nobel Prize lecture. © Knudsens fotosenter/Dextra Photo, Norsk Teknisk Museum. Your Majesty the King, Your Royal Highness, Esteemed Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Honorable Prime Minister, Madame Gro Harlem Brundtland, Ministers, Members of the Parliament and Ambassadors, Fellow Laureates, Distinguished Guests, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, At an age when most…

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My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. Of course I can’t consciously remember anything from the first two or three years of my life after birth. (And, also, one suspects, psychologically, that the earliest memories have…

Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1994 Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself During the last catastrophic World War I was a little boy and lived in a remote, wooded valley on Shikoku Island in the Japanese Archipelago, thousands of miles away from here. At that time there were two books by which I was really fascinated: The…