Jon Fosse Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

Stockholm: Norwegian author Jon Fosse has been honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish krona (₹7,54,21,900) and is universally acknowledged as the most esteemed literary award worldwide. Over the years, this distinguished accolade has been presented 116 times to 120 laureates, spanning the period from 1901 to 2023.

While the Nobel Prize nominations and deliberations are shrouded in secrecy, betting sites had placed favourable odds on Jon Fosse, alongside Chinese fiction writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Notably, Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon were also subjects of speculation among bookmakers.

Recent recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature include French author Annie Ernaux (2022), Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), American poet and essayist Louise Glück (2020), and Austrian writer Peter Handke (2019).

The illustrious list of past laureates features luminaries such as WB Yeats (1923), GB Shaw (1925), Herman Hesse (1946), TS Eliot (1948), Pablo Neruda (1971), and Gabriel García Márquez (1982).

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been an annual celebration of outstanding achievements in the fields of science, literature, and peace. This prestigious award was established in the testament of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, renowned for his invention of dynamite.