The organization that awards the prize announced that it had awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse for his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unsayable.
Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize: The Swedish Academy presents the prize, which has a value of 11 million Swedish crowns or nearly $1 million.
The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prizes for Literature, Science, and Peace since 1901, following their establishment in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. They have become the highest honors in their respective disciplines.
The Swedish central bank later added the economics award and founded it.
Literature has frequently attracted more debate and attention than the peace award, bringing less well-known authors into the public eye and boosting book sales for renowned literary super stars.
The literature prize has chosen recipients over the years who go far outside the novelist tradition, including playwrights, historians, philosophers, and poets. In 2016, the award to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan set a new precedent.
Author Annie Ernaux, one of the front-runners for the Nobel Prize last year, became the first French woman to receive it for her primarily autobiographical works that explore memory and social inequity.