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Monthly JUNE 2017

The Essence of a Great Accomplishment - The Nobel Lecture "I guess I'd have to start with Buddy Holly" According to the Nobel Foundation statutes, the Nobel Laureates are required to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in the case of the Peace Prize, in Oslo on 10 December. Most common though, is that the Laureates deliver their lectures during the Nobel Week, prior to the award ceremony. Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Literature Prize, but was not present during Nobel Week. His lecture was recorded on 4 June 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Read or listen to Bob Dylan's Nobel Lecture

Alice Munro. "I can't remember when I wasn't writing stories" Taped Nobel Lectures are rare but occur now and then. The last time it happened was in 2013, when Literature Laureate Alice Munro held her lecture in absentia ? as a pre-recorded video conversation about her writing - Alice Munro: In Her Own Words. Watch Alice Munro's lecture

"I had failed entirely to find the true parasite at all" Most of the Nobel Lectures are saved for coming generations in text format. Army surgeon Ronald Ross discovered the parasite causing malaria and was awarded the 1902 Medicine Prize. His Nobel Lecture is a fascinating story of examining and observing an endless number of mosquitoes in the hunt for the malaria parasite. Read his fascinating Nobel Lecture Researches on malaria Salivary gland of mosquito. Drawing from Ronald Ross' Nobel Lecture.

Kailash Sathyarthi. "Let us globalise compassion" The Nobel Lectures are opportunities for the Laureates to get their messages out. 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Sathyarthi's vision is to put an end to child labour. His Nobel Lecture was a distinct call for action: "Today it is time for every child to have the right to life". (The lecture starts with some pieces in Hindi.) Watch Kailash Sathyarthi's lecture

Monthly Quiz Who Declined the Prize? Alfred Nobel had broad cultural interests. The interest that he developed in literature during his early youth lasted throughout his life. His library holds a rich spectrum of literature in different languages. Do you know which one of these Nobel Laureates in Literature declined the Prize? Choose a Laureate and click to submit your answer.  Hermann Hesse  Jean-Paul Sartre  Harold Pinter

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