Acceptance Speech – Bern, 17.11.2023 (Video)

USA

David Damrosch

2023 Balzan Prize for World Literature

For his creative approach to world literature as a transnational circulation of works that remain alive because they are embraced and changed beyond their culture of origin. For his stupendous knowledge of Western and non-Western literatures in all their geographical breadth and historical depth.

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