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Jon Olav Fosse ( Norwegian: [ˈjʊ̀nː ˈfɔ̂sːə]; born 29 September 1959) is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
Jon Fosse is a Norwegian author of novels, plays, poems, children’s books, and essays, who has also worked as an instructor and a translator. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023 “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Oct 5, 2023 · Throughout a decades-long career, the playwright and author Jon Fosse has inspired comparisons to Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett and even George Harrison from the Beatles.
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Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, talks about his writing career, his language Nynorsk, and his motivation for writing. Watch the video or read the transcript of the interview recorded in Stockholm in December 2023.
Jon Fosse is a Norwegian writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 for his innovative plays and prose in Nynorsk. He expresses the human emotions of anxiety and powerlessness in simple everyday terms, with warmth, humour and naïve vulnerability.
Jon Fosse, the Norwegian writer who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2023, delivered his lecture on 7 December 2023. He spoke about his fear of reading aloud, his search for a silent language, and his exploration of the unsayable in prose, poetry and drama.
