Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
In recent years, the prizes have gone to French author Annie Ernaux (2022), Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), American poet and essayist Louise Glück ( 2020) and Austrian writer Peter Handke ( 2019).
Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
Oct 05, 2023
Norwegian novelist and dramatist Jon Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2023, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. For those who don’t know him, the 64-year-old author writes the least common of the two official versions of Norwegian.
The Nobel Prize Academy honoured Fosse’s body of work written in Norwegian Nynorsk including several plays, nov
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