The Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Olav Fosse, for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.
- Fosse writes in Norwegian Nynorsk, the least common of the two official versions of Norwegian.
- Fosse first started writing novels, switching to plays in his 30s. He went on to become one of Norway’s most-performed dramatists, and is in fact counted among the most performed of living European dramatists.
- His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Some of his works include: “A New Name: Septology VI-VII”, I Am the Wind, Melancholy, Boathouse, and The Dead Dogs.
