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Norwegian author Jon Fosse' poses for a photo as his book Septologien is launched at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, Sept. 6, 2019. The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Fosse. The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announced the prize Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Stockholm. The academy says the prize is for Fosse's “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable.
Fosse has cited the bleak, enigmatic work of Irish writer Samuel Beckett — the 1969 Nobel literature laureate — as an influence on his sparse, minimalist style. Norway's Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson received the prize in 1903, Knut Hamsun was awarded it in 1920 and Sigrid Undset in 1928. His other major prose works include “Melancholy;” “Morning and Evening,” whose two parts depict a birth and a death; “Wakefulness;” and “Olav’s Dreams.”His plays, which have been staged across Europe and in the United States, include “The Name,” “Dream of Autumn” and “I am the Wind.”
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