2023-12-10 19:34:09
The Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustaf presented the 64-year-old with the award in Stockholm. Fosse is not the first winner from Sweden’s neighboring country.
Stockholm.
The Norwegian playwright, author and poet Jon Fosse has been honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustaf presented the 64-year-old with the award on Sunday in Stockholm, where the Nobel Prizes in Science were also presented. Fosse explored the limits of human existence with his literature, praised the chairwoman of the Nobel Foundation, Astrid Söderbergh, right at the beginning.
The chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, Anders Olsson, emphasized that Fosse repeatedly addressed existential uncertainties. His work is about the disorientation of the individual and the difficulties of finding a way in life. Fosse is not a difficult writer.
“He uses the simplest words and writes about experiences that we can all relate to: separation, death and the vulnerability of love,” Olsson said. “The fact that he is one of the most performed playwrights today shows that this is an ordeal shared by many.”
Fosse is the first Norwegian Nobel Prize winner in literature since Sigrid Undset 95 years ago. He dealt intensively with the German mystic Meister Eckhart (around 1260 to 1328) and, like Undset, converted to Catholicism.
After his debut literary work “Red, Black” (1983), Fosse published novels, volumes of poetry, collections of essays and children’s books. His first drama in German, “The Name”, won him the Ibsen Prize and the Austrian Theater Prize. (dpa)
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