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Knut Hamsun |
Pär Lagerkvist |
Selma Lagerlöf |
Halldór Laxness |
Isaac B. Singer |
Download a flier in .pdf format here.
The public is cordially invited to attend
a FREE one-day Symposium and two film screenings!
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Knut Hamsun |
Pär Lagerkvist |
Selma Lagerlöf |
Halldór Laxness |
Isaac B. Singer |
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Main Event: Saturday, April 21, 2001 The Knopf Room | |
9:30: Continental Breakfast.
10:00: Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize, Physics, 1979
12:30 Madeleine Gustafsson, Culture Commentator, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
1:30 Readings from Nobel Authors
3:30 Reception
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Johannes V. Jensen |
Thomas Mann |
Sigrid Undset |
Frans Eemil Sillanpää |
Heinrich Böll |
ASSOCIATED FILM SCREENINGS:
Goldsmith Hall 3.120; 7:00 PM
Friday, April 20
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Jerusalem (1996)Director: Bille August In the late 19th century, a small Swedish village is sharply divided by the arrival of a radical and charismatic preacher who seeks followers to join him on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to await Christ's return. With a tragic love story -- Sweden's Titanic. Based on a true story, director Bille August's ("Pelle the Conqueror") adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel stars Maria Bonnevie, Olympia Dukakis, Ulf Friberg and Max von Sydow. In English and Swedish with English subtitles. |
Saturday, April 21
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Hamsun (1997)Director: Jan Troell The gripping and compelling true story of Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author who stunned his country when he sided with Hitler during World War II, not for Nazi ideals, but due to his deep hatred of Great Britain. What happens when a nation's author gets political for the wrong cause? With Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Ernst Jacobi. In Norwegian, German, Swedish, and Danish, with English subtitles. |
This Symposium is funded by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the N. P. and Maria Mauritz Family Endowment, and the Swedish Studies Excellence Endowment.
Organized with the help of the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
