Swedish Svenska Akademien Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande 3 oktober 1996 Nobelpriset i litteratur 1996 Wislawa Szymborska “för en poesi som med ironisk precision låter det historiska och biologiska sammanhanget träda fram i fragment av mänsklig verklighet” Den polska poeten och kritikern Wislawa Szymborska [sjymbår’ska] är 73 år gammal och bosatt i Krakow. Sedan 1957 – då…

Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 has decided to award the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor David M. Lee, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, Professor Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, and Professor Robert C. Richardson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, for their discovery of superfluidity…

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English Utopia Island where all becomes clear. Solid ground beneath your feet. The only roads are those that offer access. Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs. The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here with branches disentangled since time immemorial. The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple, sprouts by the spring called Now I…

Polish Wisława Szymborska Widok z ziarnkiem piasku Copyright © Wisława Szymborska   Wisława Szymborska Widok z ziarnkiem piasku Copyright © Wisława Szymborska   Copyright © Wisława Szymborska Copyright © Wisława Szymborska Copyright © Wisława Szymborska Poems selected by the Nobel Library of the , and Michal Bron.

I was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values. When I was three my family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where we lived…

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Interview transcript Sir James Mirrlees, very welcome to this interview. We’re very happy to have you here with us. James Mirrlees: Thank you. I just want to start off with some memories from 1996, the day that you were told that you were to receive the Economy Prize. What were your thoughts?…

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