Presentation Speech by Per Hallström, Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1937 The recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1937, Roger Martin du Gard, has dedicated most of his activity to a single work, a long series of novels with the collective title, Les Thibault (1922-40). It is a vast work…

Swedish Presentationstal av Författaren Per Wästberg, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2010. Per Wästberg presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2010 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, ärade Nobelpristagare, mina damer och herrar! Mario Vargas Llosas författarskap har format vår bild av Sydamerika och har ett eget kapitel…

Presentation Speech by Per Hallström Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1938 Pearl Buck once told how she had found her mission as interpreter to the West of the nature and being of China. She did not turn to it as a literary speciality at all; it came to her naturally. «It is…

Presentation Speech by , Permanent Secretary of the , on December 10, 1921 Anatole France was no longer a young man when, in 1881, he captured the attention of the literary public in France and subsequently in the civilized world with his curious novel, Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. He had behind him a long…

  Presentation Speech by Horace Engdahl, Ph.D., Permanent Secretary of the December 10, 2001. Translation of the Swedish text. Dr. Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, In the Middle Ages,…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the , Member of its Nobel Committee, Professor Horace Engdahl delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, In his book about his native Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Anders Olsson, Member of the , 10 December 2009. Professor Anders Olsson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, Some literature reveals its deep qualities slowly, step by step. Other literature…

English Presentationstal av Professor Horace Engdahl, ständige sekreterare, ledamot av Svenska Akademien, Professor Horace Engdahl presenterar Nobelpriset i litteratur 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, mina damer och herrar! Orhan Pamuk beskriver i sin bok om hemstaden Istanbul hur han som ung hänfört studerade ett praktverk med gravyrer från tidigt…

Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Greek poet Giorgos Seferis, who was born in 1900 at Smyrna, which he left at an early age to accompany his family to Athens. After the Greeks were driven out of Asia Minor, and Seferis’s…

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…