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Nobel lectures, including presentation speeches and laureates' biographies. 1991-1995

Presented in this volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prize-winners, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches for the period 1991-1995. Each Nobel Lecture is based on the work that won the laureate his prize.
Print Book, English, 1997
World Scientific, Singapore, 1997
98 s. : illustrations
9789810227203, 9789810227210, 9810227205, 9810227213
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Who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity, N. Gordimer; for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment, D. Walcott; who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality, T. Morrison; who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today, K. Oe; for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everday miracles and the living past, S. Heaney.
1969 utg. av Elsevier i Amsterdam
Ryggtitel: Literature 1991-1995