Nobel Prize in Literature

• The Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Olav Fosse, for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” .

ABOUT JON FOSSE

• Fosse writes in Norwegian Nynorsk, the least common of the two official versions of Norwegian.
• 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.
• Famous works – A New Name: Septology VI-VII, I Am the Wind, Melancholy, Boathouse, and The Dead Dogs.