2023 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse for "his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable". He is the fourth Norwegian recipient of the prize. Laureate

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway. His immense bibliography spans a variety of genres such as plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children's literature and translations. Fosse's breakthrough plays Namnet (1995; The Name, 2002), Natta syng sine songar (1998; Nightsongs, 2002), Draum om hausten (1999; Dream of Autumn, 2004), and Dødsvariasjonar (2002; Death Variations, 2004) explore the existential themes of human emotion, paradox, experience of divinity, and vulnerability in a harrowing yet innovative way with language and modernist artistic techniques. [Fosse] developed his dramatic ingenuity through the influences of Vesaas, Beckett, Bernhard and Trakl. For his plays, he has been regarded as the most performed Norwegian playwright after Henrik Ibsen. Some consider Fosse's  magnum opus in prose to be Septology, which he completed in 2021: Det andre namnet (2019; The Other Name, 2020), 'Eg er ein annan (2020; 'I is Another, 2020), and Eit nytt namn (2021; A New Name, 2021). The series follows extraordinarily an aging artist's encounter with another version of himself, explorations of the human condition, reckoning with the divine, and daring reflections of what it means to live. Prize announcement
Minutes after the prize announcement, Carin Klaesson interviewed Nobel Committee chairman Anders Olsson. Asked as to why Fosse was selected as the 2023 laureate in Literature, he explained:

Reactions

Personal reactions
Interviewed by Manisha Lalloo, a correspondent of the Nobel Prize's Outreach, Fosse expressed that he was greatly surprised when he won the prize even though he was used to being on the betting list speculations. Fosse was driving at the time on his way to Frekhaug, a village on Norway's west coast near the city of Bergen, when permanent secretary Mats Malm called him to inform he was this year's Nobel laureate. Malm told him that if he did not believe it he could watch the television and watch the announcement. Asked as to how he spent his first day as a laureate, he responded: 
Fosse made mention of one particular reader, a Greek woman, who wrote a very touching email to him saying that his play Dødsvariasjonar (Death Variations) was "the reason she was still alive otherwise she would have already parted." He also gave an wonderful advice to aspiring writers, saying:

Nobel Committee
The Swedish Academy's 2023 Nobel Committee is composed of the following members:

References

External links
The Nobel Prize in Literature nobelprize.org
Swedish Academy svenskaakademien.se/en

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