Jon Fosseborn September 29, 1959, is a Norwegian writer and playwright who this Thursday was awarded the Prize Nobel Prize in Literature 2023.
The Royal Swedish Academy announced that this year the long-awaited award will go to Jon Olav Fosseborn 64 years ago in Haugesund, Norway.
Fosse as reported by the Wikipediadebuted in 1983 with the novel “Raudt, svart” (Red, black)while his first work, was made in 1994.
Versatile, the award winner has written novels, short stories, poetry, children’s books, essays and plays, and his works have been translated into more than forty languages.
An author with several awards and distinctions
Fosse He is considered “one of the greatest contemporary playwrights in the world”, and was named a knight of the French National Order of Merit in 2007.
Curiously, he has ranked number 83 on the list of 100 greatest living geniuses by the British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph”.
Since 2011, Fosse has been granted the “Grotten”, an honorary residence owned by the Norwegian State, located in the same facilities of the Royal Palacein the city center of Oslo.
The use of the “Grotten” as a permanent residence is a special honor granted by the King Harald of Norway for his contributions to Norwegian arts and culture.
The same Wikipediathis Thursday morning, had already added the Nobel Prize in Literature to his list of distinctions, in this case, surely the main one.
The last ten winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
2023: Jon Fosse (Norway) for “his innovative works of theater and prose, which give voice to the unspeakable.”
2022: Annie Ernaux (France) for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, distances and collective restrictions of personal memory.”
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah (United Kingdom) for “his empathetic and uncompromising account of the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees caught between cultures and continents.”
2020: Louise Glück (United States) for “her characteristic poetic voice that, with its austere beauty, makes individual existence universal.”
2019: Peter Handke (Austria) for “his influential work that, with much linguistic ingenuity, explored the periphery and singularity of the human experience.”
2018: Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) for “a narrative imagination that, with encyclopedic passion, symbolizes the overcoming of borders as a way of life.”
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (UK) who “has revealed, in novels of powerful emotional force, the abyss beneath our illusory sense of comfort in the world.”
2016: Bob Dylan (United States) for “having created, within the framework of the great tradition of American music, new modes of poetic expression.”
2015: Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) for “her polyphonic work, a memorial to suffering and courage in our time.”
2014: Patrick Modiano (France) for “the art of memory with which he evokes the most imperceptible human destinies and reveals the world of the Occupation.”
Source: Ambito
