The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 will go to the Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse. This was announced by the Swedish Academy on Thursday.
Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Prize “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.
The prize is worth $915,000. It is considered by many to be the most prestigious literary award in the world. Between 1901 and 2023, 116 Nobel Prize winners in literature were given the Nobel Prize in Literature.
All Nobel Prize nominations and decisions are kept secret, but before the Prize, betting sites gave Norwegian author Jon Fosse, Chinese fiction writer Can Xue, and Kenyan writer Ngg wa Thiong’o high odds of winning. The bookies were also hearing the names Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon.
In recent years, the prizes have gone to French writer Annie Ernaux (2022), Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), American poet and essayist Louise Glück (2020), and Austrian writer Peter Handke (2019). ( 2019).
