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06/10/23 06:41 AM IST

Nobel Prize for Literature 2023

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  • The Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Olav Fosse, for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.
Jon Fosse
  • Fosse writes in Norwegian Nynorsk, the least common of the two official versions of Norwegian.
  • Born in 1959, Fosse first started writing novels, switching to plays in his 30s.
  • He went on to become one of Norway’s most-performed dramatists, and is in fact counted among the most performed of living European dramatists.
  • His work has been translated into more than 40 languages.
  • Fosse has written around 40 plays, apart from novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays.
  • His “A New Name: Septology VI-VII”, about two painters, both named Asle but with different lives and demons and preoccupations, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize last year.
  • Other notable works by Fosse include I Am the Wind, Melancholy, Boathouse, and The Dead Dogs.
  • His writing style, characterised by simple, minimal, searing dialogue, is considered similar to Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, both of whom have won the Nobel earlier.
Source- The Hindu

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