Norway's Jon Fosse gets Nobel literature prize for giving 'voice to the unsayable'


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Oct 2023

A view of the sign for the Swedish Academy, where the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 5, 2023. REUTERS/ Tom Little/ File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable," the award-giving body said.

Born in 1959 in Haugesund on Norway's west coast, Fosse is best known for his dramas, though his writing spans poetry, essays, children's books and translations.

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