The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature has been announced in Stockholm. It is Norwegian writer Jon Fosse. He received the world’s most prestigious literary award for his “innovative plays and prose that express the ineffable.”
Jon Fosse is a 64-year-old writer, a representative of postmodernism in Norwegian literature, known for his philosophical and unusual works in terms of form and rhythm. First of all, Fosse became famous for his dramatic works and is considered one of the most popular playwrights in the world, and in his native Norway he even gained the status of the “new Ibsen.” In general, the writer’s work covers a variety of genres: plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, and children’s books.
He made his debut in 1983 with the novel Red, Black. Among Fosse’s most famous works is the Septology trilogy, the third volume of which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2022. “Septology tells the story of an aging artist, Asle, who lives alone on the Norwegian coast and reflects on his life.
Jacques Testard, Fosse’s publisher, said in an interview with The Guardian: “Fosse’s fiction is magical, mystical and rooted in the landscape of the western fjords where he grew up.” Fosse writes in a language called Nynoshk, a so-called New Norwegian, a minority language in Norway, “which is a political act in itself.”
