Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2023

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• Oct 5, 2023 | Pinaki Goswami

The prize, which is worth 11 million Swedish crowns is awarded by the Swedish Academy...

Digital Desk: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable," the organization that bestows the prize said on Thursday.

The prize, which is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1 million), is awarded by the Swedish Academy.

The Nobel Prizes for Literature, Science, and Peace were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, and have been awarded since 1901, becoming the highest honors in their respective disciplines.

The Swedish Central Bank later added the Economics Prize and established it.

Literature has frequently attracted more debate and attention than the Peace Award, bringing less well-known authors into the public eye and boosting book sales for renowned literary superstars.

The Literature Prize has chosen recipients over the years who go far outside the novelist tradition, including playwrights, historians, philosophers, and poets, even breaking new ground with the award to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 2016.

Author Annie Ernaux, one of the top favorites for the Nobel Prize last year, became the first French woman to receive it for her primarily autobiographical works that explore memory and social inequity.