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Jon Fosse. Jon Olav Fosse ( Norwegian: [ˈjʊ̀nː ˈfɔ̂sːə]; born 29 September 1959) is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." Fosse's work spans over seventy novels, poems, children's books, essays, and ...
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- University of Bergen (BA)
- Jon Olav Fosse, 29 September 1959 (age 64), Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2023)
May 13, 2024 · Jon Fosse (born September 29, 1959, Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian author of novels, plays, poems, children’s books, and essays, who has also worked as an instructor and a translator. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023 “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Oct 5, 2023 · Jon Fosse attends the 73rd National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Nov. 16, 2022, in New York. Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, "for his innovative plays and prose ...
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Oct 5, 2023 · Late at night, as an unnamed narrator drives aimlessly through the remote Norwegian woods, his car becomes mired in the rutted road. Hopelessly lost, he finally gets out of his car, only to see a ...
Oct 5, 2023 · The author Jon Fosse in Frekhaug, Norway, on Thursday. He had been preparing himself for “the last 10 years that this could happen,” he said of receiving the prize.
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Jon Fosse's immense œuvre written in Nynorsk consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. In his radical reduction of language and dramatic action, he expresses the most powerful human emotions of anxiety and powerlessness in the simplest everyday terms.
Dec 7, 2023 · Reporting from Oslo. Dec. 7, 2023. When the Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse was 7 years old, he had an accident that would shape his writing life. At home one day on his family’s small farm ...
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