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2023 Nobel Prize in Literature
Award
Award
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse for "his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable".[1] He is the fourth Norwegian recipient of the prize.[2][3]
Laureate
Main article: Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway.
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His immense bibliography spans a variety of genres such as plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children's literature and translations.
Fosse's breakthrough plays Namnet (1995; The Name, 2002), Natta syng sine songar (1998; Nightsongs, 2002), Draum om hausten (1999; Dream of Autumn, 2004), and Dødsvariasjonar (2002; Death Variations, 2004) explore the existential themes of human emotion, paradox, experience of divinity, and vulnerability in a harrowing yet innovative way with language and modernist artistic techniques.
[Fosse] developed his dramatic in