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Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other "elemental stuff" of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”
For Jon Fosse, the fourth Norwegian to win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, writing has been a way of surviving.
Fosse is the fourth Norwegian to win the prize.
Friday, October 06, 2023 – Norwegian author Jon Fosse, 64, is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. The announcement was made on Thursday, October 5, 2023. Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel committee for literature said: “His huge oeuvre, spanning a…