The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unspeakable.” This was announced by the Swedish Academy, which was responsible for granting the award in Stockholm.
As the academy explains, this year’s literature prizewinner, Jon Fosse, writes novels very reduced to a style that has been dubbed “Fosse minimalism.” His second novel, ‘Stengd gitar’ (1985) is a clear example of this. With his writing, Fosse presents everyday situations that are instantly recognizable in our own lives.
Other Nobel Prize winners
To date, they have delivered 116 Nobel Prize winners in this category and eleven of them have gone to writers in the Spanish language. Of these more than a hundred awards, only 17 have been for women. Ruyard Kipling is the youngest winner of this award (41 years old) and Doris Lessing the oldest (88 years old).
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Annie Ernaux (2022), Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), Louise Glück (2020, United States), Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke (joint edition, after not being awarded in 2018), Kazuo Ishiguro (2017, United Kingdom), Bob Dylan (2016, United States United States), Svetlana Aleksiévich (2015, Belarus), Patrick Modiano (2014, France), Alice Munro (2013, Canada), Mo Yan (2012, China), Tomas Transtrmer (2011, Sweden) or Mario Vargas Llosa (2010, Peru ).
Source: Lasexta
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