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Nobel Lecture by Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse reflects on his journey as a writer, influenced by childhood fear, solitude, and listening. He discusses the power of literature, silence, and the significance of the Nobel Prize.
nobelprize.orgelle organisa d’innombrables réunions pacifistes et le triomphe de sa vie fut qu’elle éveilla la conscience d’Alfred Nobel, l’inventeur de la dynamite, et le convainquit, pour réparer le mal qu’il avait fait avec sa dynamite, de fonder le prix Nobel de la paix et de l’entente internationale. Elle
Stefan Zweig • Le Monde d'hier: Souvenirs d'un Européen (French Edition)
Nobel Prize-winning scientists are about 25 times more likely to sing, dance or act than the average scientist.
bbc • Why Some People Are Impossibly Talented
On early scientific discoveries: To peer into the nucleus and discover a new and important phenomenon that no one had ever glimpsed “was like the trembling of the veil that poets write about,” Wilczek says. “Something was stirring deep in the heart of nature.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
At 97, Monti is animated and unstoppable. She runs Santa Maddalena as her personal passion project, accepting no applications and choosing writers according to her instincts, in consultation with her network of friends, publishers and other authors. Her taste, developed over a lifetime of nurturing and being nurtured by literature and art, is consi... See more