17-10-2023 | 17:16 PM
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.
Key Highlights:
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 in the Norwegian coastal town of Haugesund. He is considered as one of the most important contemporary European writers.
He published his first novel, Red, Black in 1983.He has since published numerous novels, stories, books of poetry, essay collections and even children’s books.
His work “A New Name: Septology VI-VII” was a finalist for the International Booker Prize in 2022.Other notable works by Fosse include I Am the Wind, Melancholy, Boathouse and The Dead Dogs.
His themes explore the absurdity, the futility and yet the power of the human condition; everyday confusions and irresolutions and the difficulty to form actual connections.
