It was announced by the Swedish Academy at 1 pm on Thursday.
Fosse has been presented as the favorite to win the award a number of times since 2001.
– He was in the car on the way to the cabin by the Sognefjord, the committee says when they contacted the Norwegian star author.
– I am overwhelmed and a little scared, says the award winner himself to Reuters.
– Completely stunned
Fosse’s editor for around ten years, Cecilie Seiness, does not spare the superlatives when Dagbladet calls.
– It is an incredible joy. Absolutely fantastic, she says to Dagbladet.
This year marks 40 years since Fosse made her debut as a writer, she points out.
IN ECSTASY: – It is an incredible joy. Absolutely fantastic, says Fosse’s editor, Cecilie Seiness. Photo: Lars Eivind Bones / Dagbladet Show more
– He has written in all kinds of genres. That all these good texts will reach even more people is a great joy. It is a price for a literature of really high quality. A distinctive and unusually good piece of writing, quite simply. And a terrific guy, whom I wish all the best.
She hasn’t had time to talk to Fosse yet – but has a qualified suspicion of what the author feels:
– I don’t think he’s that surprised. I think he’s crazy happy, and probably a little confused. Happy and incredibly grateful – and a little confused, she says.
Fosse has been a favorite for the prize for a number of years, and has probably had time to think through what it would mean to win such a prize, the editor believes.
The atmosphere at Samlaget is at least nothing to say on Thursday afternoon. it is a big day for both Fosse, Samlaget and Nynorsk as such, she believes.
– People are completely stunned, and incredibly happy. I am extremely happy. Rush – without being rush, that is. And it may be that we have to produce a Hardanger site eventually.
Insistent dark
PARTY: There was a good atmosphere in the premises of Det norske Samlaget on Thursday afternoon. Photo: Lars Eivind Bones / Dagbladet Show more
– Ingrained habits
In a press release via his publisher, Samlaget, Fosse says that he is very happy and grateful.
– A LITTLE SCARED: Jon Fosse says he is both overwhelmed and a little scared, after he ran away with the Nobel Prize. Photo: Agnete Brun / Dagbladet Show more
– I choose to see this award ceremony as an award to the literature that will primarily be literature, without taking other considerations into account. And not least, I choose to see this award ceremony as a prize for Nynorsk and the Nynorsk target form. Whether I want to or not, I have to thank Nynorsk for the award, says Fosse.
To NRK, Fosse says that he was surprised, but at the same time has been prepared that it could be him for a few years because of the favorite stamp.
– It is recognition, he says.
He further says that he will not give up as long as he can write, but does not believe that the award will have anything to do with his writing in the future.
– I have ingrained habits. I started writing when I was 12 and just turned 64, so I’m probably writing as I always have. Maybe it will be even better to write, now that I get so much attention as a person, which I do not like in and of itself, says Fosse.
This is the first time in 95 years that a Norwegian author has received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The last time was in 1928, when Sigrid Undset received the award.
– Fantastic
Author Anne B. Ragde thinks it is “fantastic” that Fosse has won the award.
– Fantastic. But it must be a bit painful for him that it comes so late. That they have waited so long, she tells Dagbladet.
Ragde refers to the author Doris Lessing, who received the award in 2007 – and who reacted somewhat coolly when she was told the news. At that point, Lessig had been touted as a possible winemaker for a number of years.
– Oh Christ, Lessing said to the reporter who first told her she had won the award, according to the report The Guardian.
Ragde hopes that Fosse is more pleased with the award.
Jon Fosse received the Critics Award
– Wrong Norwegian
The congratulations have not been long in coming since the award winner was announced. Both Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Conservative leader Erna Solberg are full of praise.
On the other side of the border, however, not everyone is as happy. Culture editor in the Swedish newspaper The ExpressVictor Malm, believes the Nobel Prize went to the wrong Norwegian.
He believes the award should have gone to Dag Solstad.
– Fosse is not boring, but compared to the wildly humorous compatriot Dag Solstad, my Nobel Prize candidate, you see something less original and more general, writes Malm.
He believes that Solstad’s accounts of the Scandinavian welfare state’s historical experiences lack a counterpart in world literature.
And as there are almost 100 years between Fosse’s Nobel Prize and Sigrid Undset’s, Malm believes that his favorite will never receive the prize.
– The Swedish Academy is losing perhaps the most important Scandinavian authorship of our time. However, mistakes like this are nothing new, he writes further.
A masterpiece
Around 70 works
Fosse has written around 70 works, both novels, stories, poems, essays and plays. His publications have been translated into over 50 languages.
The recent novel “Septology” was nominated earlier this year for the international Booker Prize, which after the Nobel Prize is considered to be one of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, writes NTB.
Fosse was born in Haugesund, and he grew up in Strandebarm in Kvam municipality in Hardanger.
He lives in the state’s honorary residence for artists, Grotten, at Slottsparken in Oslo.
2023-10-05 12:56:15
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