Jon Fosse awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
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Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
- Norwegian playwright-novelist Jon Fosse awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023.
- The Swedish Academy recognizes lesser-known authors with global potential.
- Fosse’s works delve into the ambiguities and disquiet of the human condition.
- He was awarded “for his innovative plays and prose which voice the unsayable”.
- Born in 1959, Fosse’s extensive work includes plays, novels, poetry, essays, and translations.
- Fosse is among the most widely-performed playwrights, even receiving recognition in Tehran.
- His debut novel “Raudt, svart” (Red, Black) was published in 1983.
- “Nokon kjem til a komme” (1996) delves into human emotions like anxiety, powerlessness, and disorientation.
- Fosse’s works, while carrying a negative sentiment, are also punctuated with humor and positive feelings.
- “Stengd gitar” (1985) presents a minimalist examination of human indecision.
- “Natta syng sine songar” (1998) explores the dilemma of a woman pondering over relationships.
- “Dodsvariasjonar” (2002) is a reverse-narrated story of a girl’s suicide.
- “Trilogien” (Trilogy, 2016) is a Biblically-tinged saga set in a barren coastal landscape.
- “Det er Ales” (2004) delves into questions about the boundary between life and death.
- Fosse’s magnum opus “Septology” was completed in 2021.
- “Septology” is a 1,200-page monologue of an elderly artist conversing with his alter ego over seven days.
- Fosse contributed to the translation of the Bible into Norwegian in 2011.
- He has translated works of Georg Trakl and Rainer Maria Rilke into Nynorsk.