Nobel Writers on Writing

In his preface Ottar Draugswold remarks that his goal in compiling this anthology is to pique readers’ interest in previously unread authors. He has done this by selecting 31 of the 95 recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature since 190l and introducing them. When a Nobel Prize winner goes to Stockholm to receive the award he or she is given 45 minutes for an acceptance address, and they can use the time as they think fit. Most of them choose a speech or lecture format. So, after introducing his selections, Draugswold reprints the addresses made by the award winners....