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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (born 1941) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". [1] The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy on 13 October 2016. [2] He is the 12th Nobel laureate from the United States.
Morrison delivered a Nobel lecture on December 7, 1993 about a fable about the power of language to elucidate and cloud, to oppress and liberate, to honor and sully, and to both quantify and be incapable of capturing a human experience. [6] [7] In her acceptance speech, Morrison described the importance of language in our lives, saying: "We die.
According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, each laureate is required to give a public lecture on a subject related to the topic of their prize. [85] The Nobel lecture as a rhetorical genre took decades to reach its current format. [86] These lectures normally occur during Nobel Week (the week leading up to the award ceremony and banquet ...