Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse (b. 1959) — Norway, writing in Norwegian Nynorsk. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.

“for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” — The Nobel Committee citation

About Jon Fosse

Norwegian novelist and playwright whose spare, musical writing is built from repetition, silence and what characters cannot say directly. Writing in Nynorsk, he turns the western Norwegian coast into a spiritual stage for loss, faith and existence.

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