Nobel Speech

‘What should we choose to remember?’: Read Nobel Prize for Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s speech

This year’s Literature Nobel laureate on writing about Japan, his ambition to be a rock star and how musician Tom Waits helped him finish his masterpiece.

Kazuo Ishiguro
· Dec 08, 2017 · 05:30 pm
Derek Walcott (1930-2017): On watching the Ramleela in Trinidad and other fragments of epic memory

The text of the 1992 Nobel Prize acceptance speech of the St Lucia-born poet and playwright.

Derek Walcott
· Mar 17, 2017 · 08:46 pm
On the battle lost: Full text of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Svetlana Alexievich’s speech

“I have written five books, but I feel that they are all one book. A book about the history of a utopia”

Svetlana Alexievich
· Dec 09, 2015 · 08:30 am