Popular Dramatist and Author from Norway Jon Fosse received the prestigious 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature recently on Thursday. The one who gave the award said that Jon Fosse wins the prestigious Nobel Prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
People like Jon Fosse are worth knowing about as they are the ones who dedicate their life to their art.
The man was born in Haugesund, the west coast of Norway in the year 1959. The man is popularly known and loved for his beautiful drama. However, his great writing abailities are not only limited to dramas, but also to essays, books for children, translations, and poetries.
Many in the world praise his unique writing style. For instance, Anders Olsson, Swedish Academy member expressed that Jon Fosse's work "touches on the deepest feelings that you have, anxieties, insecurities, questions of life and death."
"It has a sort of universal impact of everything that he writes. And it doesn't matter if it is drama, poetry or prose, it the same kind of appeal of basic humanism," the man further expressed.
It was for a very long time that Fosse was being seen as a strong contender for the award. This year, the man seemed somewhat overwhelmed and frightened by the prestigious award.
When he was asked to express what he felt, he said, "I see this as an award to the literature that first and foremost aims to be literature, without other considerations."
Jon Fosse hails from Norway and is 64 years old in age. He is the first Norwagian to win the Nobel Prize for literature since the 1928.
"I was surprised but at the same time, in a sense, I wasn't," Jon Fosse expressed.
"I've been part of the discussion for ten years and have more or less carefully prepared myself for ten years that it could happen," he further said.
He also remarked that since he has received the Nobel Prize, there are no more huge prizes left to win. "Everything will be downhill from now on," he expressed.
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