Jon Foss, Swedish writer Won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature for her writing that gives voice to things that cannot be spoken.
Foreign news agencies reported that on October 5, 2023, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Mr. Jon Fosse, a Norwegian writer, He is the recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature along with a prize money of 11 million Swedish krona (approximately 36.7 million baht) for his work in creating plays and prose. which gives voice to the unspeakable
Mr Foss, now 64, was born in a town on Norway’s west coast. There are more than 40 plays, excluding novels, poems, essays, and children’s books. and a number of translations
The Nobel Committee for Literature praised Fosse’s writing style. This is known as ‘Fosse minimalism’. “Fosse presents every situation. A day in our lives That immediately made me think of it. Reducing the use of language and action in his plays It expresses human anxiety and helplessness most powerfully in its simplest form.”
Foss’ masterpiece Written in Nynorsk Norwegian, it includes ‘Septology’, a three-volume novel telling the story of an elderly painter and his widowed mother who live alone. As the painter tried to contemplate the realities of religion, identity, art and family life.
Mr. Anders Olsson, Chairman of the Nobel Literature Committee, said: Mr. Foss is a wonderful writer in many ways: “He touches you deeply when you read his work. And when you read You will have to read on.”
“The special thing about him is Intimacy in his writing It touches the deepest feelings you have. Anxiety, uncertainty, questions about life and death are things that every human being has to deal with from the beginning,” Mr. Olson continued. “In that sense, I think he’s gone a long way. And all of his writings have had a far-reaching impact. Whether it is drama, poetry or prose, they all share the same fundamental human attraction.”
Mr. Foss had a near-fatal accident when he was just 7 years old, he said. That was the most important experience of his childhood. And it was this experience that made him an artist.
