Bonnier News - Nobel Prize

Tomas Tranströmer Meets the Press

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-07
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Eva Bonnier, Tomas Tranströmer and Monica Tranströmer meet the press.

A happy Tomas Tranströmer met the press at the steps of his apartment building in Stockholm with his wife Monica, Anna Tillgren, PR manager and Eva Bonnier, publisher, both from his publisher Albert Bonniers Förlag. In answer to the questions what they did when the Nobel prizes were announced, Monica Tranströmer's reply "we sat and read, like other retirees!" was met with laughter.

Publisher Eva Bonnier says that she actually didn't watch the broadcast of the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Tomas Tranströmer Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

By Bert Menninga on 2011-10-06
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Longterm Bonnier author Tomas Tranströmer wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Swedish Academy today announced that longtime Bonnier author Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Herta Müller is a money-spinner

By Niklas Sessler on 2009-12-09
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Today, Herta Müller receives the Nobel Prize in Literature from the hands of His Majesty the King of Sweden. In addition to eternal glory and fame, she also gets the prize money, 10 million Swedish crowns (almost 1.4 million USD). But even for her Swedish publisher, Wahlström & Widstrand, the Prize is a welcome addition to the Christmas trade.

Photo: Ulla Montan

"It's a money-spinner," says Katarina Arborelius, marketing manager at Wahlström & Widstrand. "The hottest right now is Andningsgunga (English title: Everything I Possess I Carry With Me) who came in stock last week, while Herta Müller arrived in Stockholm.