Nobel Prize in Literature 2017

[Daniel del Real]

Here's Ishiguro Nobel lecture, on video and in several languages for your convenience:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2017/ishiguro-lecture.html

 

[CapreseBoi]

i agree with isa about the regurgitation of the same things he says to ppl lolol i actually fell asleep listening to him good thing i closed the laptop or i mightve slept with earphones on...scaryyy

tbh though, i didn't expect him to give a lecture akin to, say, toni morrison's. which, i must admit, is the only lecture i've read and heard. oh...derek walcott's! love that. i must read all i could find!!! which are all in the website ahaha, silly me

 

[Ater Lividus Ruber & V]

Oh, so we were right about Danius giving her first speech.

Rather disappointed by the Diploma. Looks like the same person did the Medicine ones, too (calligrapher at least). All the others feature artwork.

 

[Mise Eire]

Oddly, his Nobel Diploma is very bare and features no artwork.

This is an awful departure from tradition if this, in fact, is the diploma he actually received. Even the "artwork" now, when it appears, looks like processed photo-editing.

There is a long line of beautiful illustrated artwork (mainly by Bo Larsson who did the artwork from 1989-2003) which reflects themes and preoccupations of the writer's work or imaginative interpretations thereof.

Sad to see the Nobel Committee have "gone budget".

http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/events/exhibitions/2010/onehundred/100-objects/Exhibit-089.htm <-Patrick White (love this one - references to many of his novels apparent)

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-diploma.jpg

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/beckett-diploma.jpg

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-diploma.jpg

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/szymborska-diploma.jpg

 

[Ater Lividus Ruber & V]

As I said, Medicine had the same design.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2017/hall-diploma.html

 

[Liam]

I really like the simplicity of Heaney's diploma, with the abundance of green being a kind of nod to his heritage,

 

[redhead]

Could be those proposals were repeating already nominate names. Check out how many people nominated Churchill and Lagerkvist in 1950: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/list.php