Jon Fosse Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 For “Expressing The Unspeakable”
“Fosse presents everyday situations that are instantly recognizable in our own lives. His radical reduction of language and dramatic action expresses the most powerful human emotions of anxiety and powerlessness in the simplest terms,” said Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Literature . The committee lauded the author’s style, which has come to be known as “Fosse minimalism”. His work consists of around 40 plays, as well as a number of novels, poetry, essays, children’s books, and translations. Jacques Testard, Fosse’s fiction publisher, said on hearing the news: “He is an exceptional writer, who has managed to find a totally unique way of writing fiction. His fiction is incantatory, mystical, and rooted in the landscape of the western fjords where he grew up”. “Fosse minimalism” Fosse’s “magnum opus in prose” was his recent “Septology” – made up of seven parts collected in three volumes: The Other Name, I Is Another, and A New Name. “Septology” has been prais...