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Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic prose in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children's books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for writing that gives 'voice to the unsayable.'
His plays are among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in the world
Fosse's sprawling body of work includes plays, novels, children's books and more. The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, said the writer's works "give voice to the unsayable".
The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway's Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence
Nobel Prize Winners 2023: The winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology 2023 is announced by the Swedish Academy.