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Banquet speech. William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 *. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the ...
‘The Agony and the Sweat’ is the title sometimes given to one of the most memorable Nobel Prize acceptance speeches: the American novelist William Faulkner’s acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature at Stockholm in 1950.
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Lyrics. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not...
William Faulkner. Originally Delivered Address Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature. delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio version #1.] Ladies and Gentlemen:
Jan 10, 2014 · But one of the best comes from William Faulkner (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, exactly twenty years after he wrote The Sound and the Fury, and delivered his acceptance speech at Stockholm’s City Hall on December 10, 1950.
Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature. originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden
Award ceremony speech. Presentation Speech by Gustaf Hellström, Member of the Swedish Academy, December 10, 1950. William Faulkner is essentially a regional writer, and as such reminds Swedish readers now and then of two of our own most important novelists, Selma Lagerlöf and Hjalmar Bergman. Faulkner’s Värmland is the northern part of the ...
