Nobel Prize in literature 2023 awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse
Nobel Prize in literature 2023 awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse. Norwegian author Jon Fosse, 64, is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. The announcement was made on Thursday, October 5, 2023. Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel committee for literature said: “His huge oeuvre, spanning a variety of genres, comprises around 40 plays and a wealth of novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. “Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism.” Born in 1959 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway, Fosse grew up in Strandebarm. At the age of seven, he nearly died in an accident, which he said was “the most important experience” of his childhood and one that “created” him as an artist. He aspired to be a rock guitarist before turning his ambitions to writing. His debut novel,