Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 for Norwegian Jon Fosse

He Nobel Prize of Literature 2023 was awarded this Thursday to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse for his “innovative” works, the jury announced.

Fosse64, was awarded “for his innovative works of theater and prose, which give voice to the unspeakable,” declared the Swedish Academy.

Born on September 29, 1959 in the city of Haugesund (southwest), Fosse is a versatile writer who is not very accessible to the general public. However, he is one of the living authors whose plays are most performed in Europe.

Often compared to Samuel Beckett, Fosse’s work is minimalist, based on simple language that conveys its message through rhythm, melody and silence.

Fosse emerged as a playwright on the European stage with his play “Someone’s Coming.” When he heard the news, “he was driving through the countryside, toward the fjord north of Bergen in Norway,” said Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary. of the Swedish Academy, after the announcement.

”We had the opportunity to start talking about practical issues and Nobel week in December,” he added.

Fosse is the fourth Norwegian to win the Nobel Prize, after Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1903), Knut Hamsun (1920) and Sigrid Undset (1928).

“A New Name: Septology VI-VII” — described by Olsen as her “masterpiece” — was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022.

He Nobel It includes a financial prize of 11 million Swedish crowns (one million dollars) from the legacy of its creator, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. In addition, at the award ceremonies in December the winners receive an 18-karat gold medal and a diploma.

Last year, the Academy recognized the French writer Annie Ernaux for the “bravery and clinical acuity” of his books, based on his origins in a small town in Normandy, a region in northwestern France. She was the seventeenth woman among the 119 awardees.

He Nobel of Literature has been criticized for focusing too much on European and North American authors, and mostly on men.

In 2018 there was no winner after accusations of sexual abuse that shook the Swedish Academy, which appoints the Nobel literature committee, which caused the exodus of its members. The academy was renewed but was criticized again for awarding the 2019 award to Austrian Peter Handke, who has been described as an apologist for Serbian war crimes.

In this edition, scientists Moungi Bawendi, from MIT; Louis Brus, of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the day before for their work with quantum dots, tiny particles that “have unique properties and now shed their light from screens.” television and LED light bulbs.”

The Nobel Prize in Physics went on Tuesday to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostine and Ferenc Krausz, born in Hungary, for achieving the first glimpse in tiny fractions of a second of the ultra-fast world of electrons.

The Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and the American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that allowed the development of messenger RNA vaccines against COVID-19.

The peace and economy awards have yet to be announced, in a process that concludes on October 9.