Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature Announced

The 2023 Nobel Prizes were finding their winners throughout this week. During the past three days, awards in the fields of chemistry, physics and medicine were awarded. Today, it was announced who won the award in the literature category.

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, 64 years old Norwegian Writer Jon Fosse happened. Along with the award, Fosse also received a prize of approximately 1 million dollars.

Who is Jon Fosse?

In the statement, it was stated that the award was given to Fosse.innovative plays and prose that express the unsayable” It was stated that it was given due to Born in 1959, Jon Fosse was known for dozens of famous plays he wrote throughout his life. His plays were performed in different languages ​​around the world. Apart from plays, he also wrote novels, poems and children’s books.

Fosse’s works, “Fosse minimalismHe is known for his styles called “. While the famous author prefers to use simple language, he conveys messages through things such as silence, rhythm and melody. Let us also add that Fosse has been compared to famous modernist writers such as Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl, Tarjei Vessas.

Nobel Committee President Andress Olsson also made the following statement regarding Fosse: “He is a fantastic writer in many ways. When you read it, it affects you so deeply that when you start his works, you have to continue. What makes him special is the ‘intimacy’ he creates in his writings. “It touches on things that every human being faces—the deepest emotions you have, the anxieties, the insecurities, the questions about life and death.”

Consisting of three books, Septology, Someone Is Going to Come, Boathouse, Melancholy, Andvake, are among Jon Fosse’s famous works.

Who won the award last year?

French writer won last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature Annie Ernaux he had won.

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