Where can I read Hemingways Nobel Prize speech?
Below is the full text of Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, which was read for him by John C. Cabot, the then US Ambassador to Sweden. Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen: Having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric, I wish to thank the administrators of the generosity of Alfred Nobel for this prize. No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience. It would be impossible for me to ask the Ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are in his heart. Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten. Writing,
