Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has received the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy introduced on Thursday.
Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, described Fosse as one of the vital recognised and extensively carried out playwrights of our time.
He can also be acclaimed for his novels, youngsters’s books, quick tales, essays and poetry.
Fosse, born in 1959, has a closely pared down type that has come to be referred to as “Fosse minimalism,” the academy mentioned, including that his writing uncovered man’s lack of orientation.
He additionally interprets different authors’ works into Norwegian.
His immense “oeuvre spans a variety of genres,” the academy added in a press release.
“Eg er vinden’’ (I am the Wind) is one of his most famous plays while the novel trilogy “Andvake” (Wakefulness), “Olavs draumar” (Olav’s Dreams) and “ Kveldsvævd” (Weariness) have been extensively lauded.
He spent his childhood and youth in a small village on a fjord on the west coast of Norway.
Here he discovered inspiration for his prose and performs which have been translated into 40 languages and carried out on main phases all over the world for the reason that mid-Nineties.
His compatriots have a good time him as essentially the most profitable Norwegian playwright since Henrik Ibsen.
Last yr’s winner was French writer Annie Ernaux.
She was solely the seventeenth girl among the many 120 Nobel Prize winners in literature so far.
In latest years, the prize has been awarded alternately to women and men.
The Nobel laureates in medication, physics and chemistry have been introduced from Monday to Wednesday in Stockholm, with the Nobel Peace Prize following on Friday in Oslo.
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences could be awarded on Monday.
The awards are historically introduced to the winners on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the loss of life of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite and founding father of the prizes.
In 2023, the awards got here with 11 million Swedish kronor (999,000 {dollars}) per class, 1 million kronor greater than final yr.
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