Presentation Speech by C.D. af Wirsén, Permanent Secretary of the on December 10, 1904 One sometimes hears it said that the Nobel Prizes should be awarded to authors still in the prime of life and consequently at the height of their development, in order to shelter them from material difficulties and assure them a wholly…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the In the impressive succession of Nobel Prize winners in Literature, T.S. Eliot marks a departure from the type of writer that has most frequently gained that distinction. The majority have been representatives of a literature which seeks its natural contacts in the public consciousness, and which,…

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 Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, a prominent representative of the modern literature of Latin America, in which such interesting developments are now taking place. Born in 1899 in the capital of Guatemala, Asturias became…

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…

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 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…