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Norwegian author Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose. This follows last years win by French author Annie Ernaux, who was praised for her books rooted in her small-town background. The Nobel literature prize has faced criticism for its Eurocentric and male-dominated focus.

Fosse has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children's books, poetry and essays.

The Swedish Academy said the 64-year-old was honoured "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable".

Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced the prize Thursday

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The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the Nobel literature prize to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, whose plays are among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in Europe.The Swedish Academy has undergone major reforms since a devastating #MeToo scandal in 2018, vowing a more global and gender-equal literature prize. 

Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children's books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.

Norwegian playwright, novelist, essayist and poet writes in Nynorsk, a language used by just 10 per cent of Norways 5.4 million people

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