Sweden: The Royal Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”, according to the Swedish Academy.
Fosse writes in Norwegian Nynorsk, the least common of the two official versions of Norwegian. After winning the Nobel, he said he regarded the award as recognition of this language and the movement promoting it, and that he ultimately owed the prize to the language itself, according to Reuters.
Born in 1959, Fosse first started writing novels, switching to plays in his 30s. He went on to become one of Norway’s most-performed dramatists and is, in fact, counted among the most-performed of living European dramatists. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Fosse has written around 40 plays, apart from novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry, and essays.
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