The Nobel committee has honored many worthy writers since 1901although many deserving writers (Tolstoy, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov) were passed over. Open Culture has gathered together seven speeches by seven laureates.
Below is William Faulkner's 1950 acceptance speech:
See Hemingway, Bertrand Russel, Steinbeck, V.S. Naipul, Orhan Pamuk, and Mario Vargas Llosa here.
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