The 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Norwegian Jon Fosse. The Swedish Academy announced this on Thursday afternoon in Stockholm. Fosse is also Austrian by choice. He has a residence in Hainburg an der Donau in Lower Austria.
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 in the Norwegian coastal town of Haugesund and grew up on the Hardangerfjord. His works first became known in German with the novels “Melancholy”, “Morgen und Abend” and “Das ist Alise”.
In 2015 he received the Nordic Council Literary Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Scandinavia, for his prose work ‘Trilogy’.
His seven-part magnum opus, starting with the first part ‘The Other Name’, was nominated for the Booker International Prize in 2020. The final part, ‘A New Name’, was shortlisted in 2022 and won him the most prestigious Norwegian literary prizes Brageprisen and Critic Prizen.
Fosse is also Austrian by choice. He has a residence in Hainburg an der Donau in Lower Austria.
Jon Fosse is considered one of the most important contemporary European writers. His more than 30 plays have been performed worldwide and have won him numerous awards.
The Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry have already been awarded. An Austrian is also among the prize winners.
The prize has a value of approximately 940,000 euros
This year the prize is endowed with eleven million Swedish crowns (about 940,000 euros). The Nobel Foundation has increased the prize money by one million crowns compared to the previous year. The prize is awarded every year on December 10, the anniversary of the death of founder Alfred Nobel.
Source: Krone
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