The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
Awarded on: 2023-10-05
"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"
Jon Fosse
Born: 1959-09-29 in Haugesund, Norway
Gender: male
Field: Norwegian author and dramatist (born 1959)
Biography
Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."