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The
Nobel Prize in Literature
by Kjell Espmark
The history of
the Literature Prize appears as a series of attempts to interpret an
imprecisely worded will. |
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German
Literature Laureates in Early 20th Century
by Sture
Packalén
The work of Mommsen, Eucken and Heyse depicted reality
in an explicable, idealised light. Hauptmann rejected all attempts
to embellish reality. |
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Alfred
Nobel and the Nobel Prize in Literature
by Ĺke
Erlandsson
Contents of the exhibition held at Centre Culturel
Suédois, Paris, December 1997 and at Université Rennes 2,
March-April 1997. |
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Nominations
and Reports 1901–1950
by Bo Svensén
Like those who
nominated them, the
candidates proposed for the Literature
Prize varied extensively. |
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Nobel
Prize Authors on Time
by Anders Cullhed
What is time? Is
it a circle, a line,
or an irreversible process with a
unique
beginning and end? |
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A Domestication of Death: The
Poetic Universe of Wislawa Szymborska
by Malgorzata Anna Packalén
"Life, however long, will always be short. Too short for
anything to be added." |
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Elfriede
Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life
by Sture
Packalén
No Austrian author has excited as much hatred as
Elfriede Jelinek, but nor has any other received such a euphoric
reception. |
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Naguib Mahfouz - The Son of Two
Civilizations
by Anders Hallengren
In Manfouz's
novels there is a staunch belief in moral right and a constant
seeking for Egyptian identity behind the weft of illusion and
reality. |
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A
Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite
by Jöran Mjöberg
A
central theme that runs throughout the works of Derek Walcott, 1992
Literature Laureate, is his search for identity. |
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Joseph Brodsky: A Virgilian Hero, Doomed Never to
Return Home
by Bengt Jangfeldt
Brodsky's belief in
the power of the word must be seen against his view of time and
space. |
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Patrick
White - Existential
Explorer
by Karin Hansson
1973 Literature Laureate Patrick
White's
writing is an entity that consistently
explores and
communicates his perception of reality.
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Imre Kertész - A Medium for the Spirit of
Auschwitz
by Madeleine Gustafsson
Kertész'
fundamental theme is about the totalitarian experience: Auschwitz as
trauma not only for an individual but for the whole
civilization. |
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A
Case of Identity: Ernest Hemingway
by Anders
Hallengren
Hemingway's style is a compulsive
suppression of
unbearable and
inexpressible feelings in the chaotic
world of
his time. |
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Nadine
Gordimer and the South African Experience
by Per
Wästberg
Above her collected experience, the light sweeps,
illuminating parts that would otherwise have lain in darkness. |
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Grazia
Deledda: Voice
of Sardinia
by Anders Hallengren
Deledda's aim in her art
was to picture
the life, sentiments, and thoughts of
her
culture on a broader scale, and to
set in writing the stories of
her island. |
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Tagore
and His India
by Amartya Sen
It is in the sovereignty of
reasoning
that we can find Rabindranath
Tagore's lasting
voice. |
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Harry Martinson: Catching the Dew
Drop, Reflecting the Cosmos
by Ulf
Larsson
Martinson opened perspectives into the
microcosm and
outward to the dizzying
reaches of space.
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Topping
Shakespeare? Aspects of
the
Nobel Prize for Literature
by Sture Allén
It has been
asked how it may be
determined whethere one kind of
literature
is more ideal than another. |
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