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The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps between different cultures, time periods and styles. This book features the presentation speeches and the Nobel lectures, provides biographies, and the Nobel laureates' accounts of years of preparation and effort that led to their achievements.

The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps between different cultures, time periods and styles. This book features the presentation speeches and the Nobel lectures, provides biographies, and the Nobel laureates' accounts of years of preparation and effort that led to their achievements.

A collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners in the area of literature during the period 1996-2000. The prizewinners during these years include: W. Szymborska, D. Fo, J. Saramago, G. Grass and X.-J. Gao.

In December 2001, the centennial of the first Nobel Prize was celebrated in Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the Swedish Academy organized a symposium on the theme of "Witness Literature." Talks were given by speakers from Asia, Africa and Europe, including three Nobel laureates in literature: Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Gao Xingjian.

The main objective of the symposium was to examine the concept of witness literature and its relevance to contemporary literature. This concept is relatively new and has not yet been defined clearly by literary criticism and scholarship. The discussion...

Equally important to our understanding of history and humanity are the great works of literature. The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps between different cultures, time-periods and styles. This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners in the area of literature in the period 1996-2000. The prizewinners during this period were: W. Szymborska (1996) - for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality; D. Fo (1997) - who...