Yoon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature

Stockholm (Reuters)
The Nobel Prize-awarding physique stated Thursday that Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse has received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “inventive performs and prose that categorical the unsaid.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prize, price 11 million Swedish krona (a million {dollars}).
Fosse was born in 1959 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway. He’s finest recognized for his dramatic works, though his writing consists of quite a lot of works, together with performs, novels, poetry collections, articles, youngsters’s books, and translations.
Swedish Academy member Anders Olsson stated his work “touches your deepest emotions, resembling worry, uncertainty and the themes of life and dying.” “All the pieces he writes has some type of international influence,” Olson added. It does not matter whether or not it’s drama, poetry or prose, it has the identical attraction as primary humanism.”
Vosse has lengthy been seen as a contender for the prize and is without doubt one of the prime favorites within the betting this 12 months.
He stated, “I really feel blissful and considerably scared” concerning the award.
He stated in an announcement: “I think about it an award for literature whose main goal is to be literature with out every other issues.”
Fosse is the fourth Norwegian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, however the first since 1928.
The prize, created by a bequest from Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, has been awarded within the fields of literature, science and peace since 1901 and has turn out to be the best skilled honor in these fields. The Riksbank subsequently added the sector of economics to the award.
Together with the Peace Prize, literature typically attracts essentially the most consideration and controversy, placing little-known authors within the international highlight and growing guide gross sales of well-known literary stars.
Through the years, the Literature Prize has additionally been received by individuals outdoors the narrative custom, together with playwrights, historians, philosophers and poets, till new horizons opened up when the prize was awarded to singer and songwriter Bob Dylan in 2016.
Author Annie Ernault received the prize final 12 months for her largely autobiographical books about private reminiscence and social inequality, making her the primary French girl to win the celebrated literature prize.