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The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström had a career, at home and internationally, that lasted over 40 years. Full Article at The Independent
Just a few hours before Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in literature, was set to read from his new novel, "The Museum of Innocence" (Alfred A. Knopf: 540 pp. , $28.95), at the Japan America Theatre, the lifelong Istanbul resident was strolling... Full Article at Los Angeles Times
Gunnar Oquist, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson of the U.S. , at the Royal Academy of Scien... View Photo »
Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described Ms. Müller, 'who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.' Her award comes on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Europe.
At a publishing party recently, I overheard an editor offer a satirical explanation of President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: namely, that members of the Swedish Academy had finally become so embarrassed by their willfully Eurocentric handling of... Full Article at Austin American-Statesman
A couple of years ago, before he provocatively scolded US literature as "too insular and ignorant" to rival Europe, I took part in a discussion about book prizes with the then secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl. Full Article at The Independent
I understand the process, you must be nominated by the Nobel Committee. I don't think anyone from the Swedish Academy knows me or has read anything I have written. But I have one chance, albeit a slim one. Full Article at Inside Bay Area
BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'wit... View Photo »
I decided to put those questions -- and others -- to Michael Hulse, a man better qualified to answer them than most. Full Article at New Statesman
Israeli scientist Ada Yonath with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in his Cambridge laboratory a month before they were named winners of the 2009 Nobel for chemistry, along with Thomas Steitz of Yale. Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph
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Gunnar Oquist, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson of the U.S. , at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, October 12, 2009.
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: Books of German writer Herta Mueller are pictured during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration o...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller celebrates during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry an...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller looks on during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
View Photo »BERLIN - OCTOBER 08: German writer Herta Mueller gestures during a press conference on October 8, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. 56-year-old Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, honored for work that 'with the concentration of poetry and...
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