A Norwegian writer, Jon Fosse, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature. Though little-known outside his home country, he is celebrated in literary circles.
Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature,"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
The 64-year-old playwright is not well known outside his home country of Norway, where he was born on the western coast in the city of Haugesund. But the author is internationally celebrated in literary circles and has been called"the most produced living playwright." He has won prestigious European awards and has long been fully subsidized by the Norway government, with a lifetime stipend and a residence near the Royal Palace in Oslo.
The author has often been called"the new Henrik Ibsen," and Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, evoked Samuel Beckett as he discussed Fosse's"artistry in the wake of modernism" during his announcement. But Damion Searls made a different comparison"Think of the four elder statesmen of Norwegian letters as a bit like the Beatles," he wrote.
The playwrigth begin as a novelist, and did not break throguh as a theater writer until he was in his forties. Og aldri skal vi skiljast The Nobel Committee has been criticized for its focus on European and Anglo writers; only five writers of color have received in the award in the past twenty years. Last year's award went to French writer
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