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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 theatre plays ...
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- University of Bergen (BA)
- Jon Olav Fosse, 29 September 1959 (age 64), Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2023)
Oct 5, 2023 · Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old playwright is not well-known outside his home country...
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May 13, 2024 · Jon Fosse 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 · Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. By Joumana Khatib and Tina Jordan. Oct. 5, 2023. Throughout a decades-long career, the playwright and author Jon Fosse has inspired comparisons to Henrik Ibsen...
Oct 5, 2023 · The Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright Jon Fosse — who has found a growing audience in the English-speaking world for novels that grapple with themes of aging, mortality, love and art — was...
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Oct 5, 2023 · Norwegian author, playwright and poet Jon Fosse has been named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy said on Thursday it was for his "innovative plays and prose which...
After the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was announced, new laureate Jon Fosse was inundated with messages congratulating him on the award. In this call with the Nobel Prize’s Manisha Lalloo he speaks about one particular reader who told him that his work was “the reason she was still alive.”
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