Tread softly because you tread on my dreams – wrote the Irish poet and Nobel Prize laurate William Butler Yeats. His authorship mirrors both his own life journey and a nation’s dramatic struggle for freedom. Yeats moved seemingly effortlessly between the metaphysical, the quotidian and a concrete political striving towards liberty. In addition, the endless thirst for love was always present in his poetry.
The Nobel Prize Museum arranges a conversation between the literary scholar Margaret Mills Harper, the Irish historian Roy Foster, Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson and The Nobel Prize Museum’s Carin Klaesson. On stage we also have Melinda Kinnaman, of The Royal Dramatic Theatre, who will read a selection of poems by W.B. Yeats.
The conversation will be held in English and is arranged together with the Department of English at Stockholm University. The ticket price also includes entrance to the museum’s exhibitions, which are open until 21:00. Before and after the conversation, Bistro Nobel offers a special Friday menu with well-selected small dishes, suitable wines, beer, cocktails, and non-alcoholic options. The bistro is also open until 21:00.
To purchase tickets, see below. Purchased tickets are non-refundable.
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