Jon Fosse, Norwegian author, now holds a Nobel Prize in Literature for his works, widely recognised and performed by different characters.
Norwegian author, Jon Fosse, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday.
Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, described Fosse as one of the most recognised and widely performed playwrights of our time.
He is also acclaimed for his novels, children’s books, short stories, essays and poetry.
Fosse, born in 1959, has a heavily pared down style that has come to be known as “Fosse minimalism,” the academy said, adding that his writing exposed man’s loss of orientation.
He also translates other authors’ works into Norwegian.
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His immense “oeuvre spans a variety of genres,” the academy added in a statement.
“Eg er vinden’’ (I am the Wind) is one of his most famous plays while the novel trilogy “Andvake” (Wakefulness), “Olavs draumar” (Olav’s Dreams) and “ Kveldsvævd” (Weariness) have been widely lauded.
Also, he spent his childhood and youth in a small village on a fjord on the west coast of Norway.
Here he found inspiration for his prose and plays which have been translated into 40 languages and performed on major stages around the world since the mid-1990s.