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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 materials of the human ...
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,...
‘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.
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
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:
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Apr 10, 2017 · Summary of Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Speech. William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 * (My brief summary followed by the transcript of the speech.) Faulkner’s Main Ideas – Good writers want to create something new, but this is difficult.
