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Jun 21, 2024 · The Swedish Academy has awarded Jon Fosse with the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature. The Norwegian author was recognised for his “innovative plays and prose
Jun 13, 2024 · The most-performed Norwegian playwright after Ibsen, Jon Fosse’s spare, questioning drama has been compared to Samuel Beckett’s. Over 1,000 productions of his plays have taken place worldwide, from Tokyo to Havana. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his ‘innovative plays and prose which give voice to the ...
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Jun 14, 2024 · Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature. His acceptance speech, A Silent Language, reflects his fiercely individual voice as a writer. Below are a number of striking direct quotes from Jon Fosse's speech along with my own observations.
6 days ago · Marie NDiaye’s Vengeance Is Mine, Esther Yi’s Y/N and Jon Fosse’s A Shining are three contemporary novels that accomplish this. All three are simple enough on their surfaces.
Jun 23, 2024 · Jon Fosse: A dramatist of global stature — who is virtually unknown here. The set-up is brusquely tragic. Lying on a bench in her home near a fjord, Signe dreams of an event in late November 20 years before that has left her paralyzed spiritually and perhaps physically.
6 days ago · Jon Fosse is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations ...
