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The Nobel committee praised “his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the inexpressible”.
Published on 05/10/2023 1:05 p.m. Updated on 05/10/2023 2:21 p.m.
Reading time: 1 min Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, in New York, November 16, 2022. (DIA DIPASUPIL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
His plays are the most performed in Europe. The Norwegian writer Jon Fosse received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday October 5. The Nobel committee salutes “his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unspeakable”. The 64-year-old playwright succeeds French author Annie Ernaux, awarded in 2022.
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The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” pic.twitter.com/dhJgGUawMl— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2023
Born September 29, 1959 in Haugesund, Norway, the author made his debut in 1983 with his novel Red Black. The style, marked by numerous projections over time and alternating points of view, will become his trademark. His novel The Boathouse (1989) earned him critical esteem.
Translated into around fifty languages
He emerged as a playwright on the European scene thanks to his play Someone is going to come (Someone will come), directed by Claude Régy in 1999 in Paris. In 2021, he reconnects with the genre thanks to the play Strong Find. His latest series of novels, Septologienseven chapters divided into three volumes released between 2019 and 2021, exploits the encounter of a man with another version of himself to raise existential questions.
“I am overwhelmed and grateful. I consider this an award for literature that aims above all to be literature, without any other consideration”, reacted Jon Fosse after the announcement of the award ceremony. According to his Norwegian publishing house Samlaget, his texts have been translated into around fifty languages and his plays produced more than a thousand times around the world.
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