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2005: The Art, Truth and Politics Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter; 2006: The Őszöd speech, a strident and obscenity-laden speech made by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány to fellow members of the Hungarian Socialist Party in Balatonőszöd. The speech, intended to be ...
Pinter's Nobel Lecture has been the source of much discussion. [1] [2] In an article published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 11 November 2005, entitled "Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics," Middlebury College English professor Jay Parini observes that "In the weeks that have passed since Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there has been incessant chatter on both sides of ...
Nobel Prize – acceptance speech: Oslo, Norway: December 11 "The Quest for Peace and Justice" Oslo, Norway: Nobel laureate lecture 1965 February 11 "Facing the Challenge of a New Age" [73] East Lansing, MI (Michigan State University) King also called for new civil rights legislation to aid in the dissolution of discrimination problems in the ...
The Solitude of Latin America" (Spanish: La Soledad de América Latina) is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez on 8 December 1982 upon being awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. [2]
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi paid tribute to the determination of the Iranian people to “dismantle” the “despotism and obstruction” of the Islamic Republic’s regime in ...
The Crisis of Man (original title in French: “La Crise de l’homme”) was a lecture delivered by Nobel Prize–winning author Albert Camus at Columbia University on March 28, 1946. [1] The lecture focused on the moral decline of humanity and on how to promote peace. [2] [3] [better source needed]
These were among the vital questions answered by the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes. Nose hairs, dead spiders and licking rocks are among this year’s Ig Nobel Prize-winning topics Skip ...
Szymborska delivered her Nobel lecture entitled The Poet and the World in the Polish language on December 7, 1996 at the Swedish Academy. [12] During the Nobel banquet, on December 20, she expressed a short speech of gratitude, saying: "No one is accustomed to receiving a Nobel Prize. Therefore no one is accustomed to expressing gratitude for it.