Nobel Prize for Literature, 2023

• Norwegian author John Fosse receives the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature.

• The Swedish Academy said the award was given to him for his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unspoken.

• Mr. Fosse is one of the most popular playwrights in the world and has also made a considerable mark in the prose genre.

• The main subject of Fosse's works is the human condition.

• The Nobel Prize Committee said that John Fosse presents everyday situations that can be commonly seen in people's lives.

• Fosse's language and radical reduction of dramatic action express the most powerful human emotions of anxiety and powerlessness in the simplest of terms.

• Fosse now joins an illustrious list of former winners, ranging from Toni Morrison to Ernest Hemingway.