Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature

NEW DELHI: The Swedish Academy announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

Fosse is the most performed Norwegian playwright after Henrik Ibsen. Fosse's works represent a modern continuation of the dramatic tradition established by 19th century playwright Ibsen.

The French government had made Fosse a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2003.In 2015, he was awarded Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the trilogy Andvake (Wakefulness), Olavs draumar (Olav's Dreams) and Kveldsvævd (Weariness).

Some prose works of Fosse

• To forteljingar (Two Stories)
• Prosa frå ein oppvekst (Prose from a Childhood)
• Melancholia I (Melancholy)
• Melancholia II (Melancholy II)
• Eldre kortare prosa med 7 bilete av Camilla Wærenskjold (Older Shorter Prose with 7 Pictures of Camilla Wærenskjold)
• Morgon og kveld (Morning and Evening)
• Det er Ales (Aliss at the Fire).
• Andvake (Wakefulness)
• Kortare prosa (Shorter Prose)
• Olavs draumar (Olav's Dreams)
• Kveldsvævd (Weariness)
• Trilogien (Trilogy)
• Det andre namnet – Septologien I-II (The Other Name: Septology I-II)
• Eg er ein annan – Septologien III-V (I Is Another: Septology III-V)
• Eit nytt namn – Septologien VI-VII (A New Name: Septology VI-VI).

Plays of Fosse

• Vakkert (Beautiful)
• Dødsvariasjonar (Death Variations)
• Jenta i sofaen (The Girl on the Sofa)
• Lilla (Lilac)
• Suzannah
• Dei døde hundane (The Dead Dogs, trans. May-Brit Akerholt)
• Sa ka la
• Varmt (Warm)
• Svevn (Sleep)
• Rambuku
• Skuggar (Shadows)
• Eg er vinden (I Am the Wind)
• Desse auga (These Eyes)

The academy has awarded the Nobel Prize 2023 in physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter while three scientist – Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov, were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on quantum dots. In medicine, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were got the award for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.