2023-10-05 19:42:39
Vienna (OTS) – “The ceremony is the same year after year, when the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy goes before the assembled press and announces the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. And the importance of price cannot be overstated. Special moments were the announcements in 2004 and 2019, when Elfriede Jelinek and Peter Handke were honored, respectively. This year the prize goes to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, to whom I warmly congratulate. Fosse also has strong ties to Austria: on the one hand privately, as he lives in Hainburg an der Donau for a good part of the year, and on the other hand artistically, because the Burgtheater has performed many of his plays and he was seen with a theater work at the Salzburg Festival. “In addition, he gave Peter Handke and Thomas Bernhard a Norwegian voice in his translations,” said Art and Culture State Secretary Andrea Mayer. “Although it was the theater that made him known in German-speaking countries and internationally, in Jon Fosse we also have a unique prose writer and poet who is often compared to Samuel Beckett because of his minimalist and spare style. But the comparison is not necessary because Fosse’s literature is solitary and unique and Fosse is an author who shows us what it means in the existential sense of the word to be human and to live here and now.
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