2023-10-05 13:15:35
This Thursday, October 5, the Swedish Academy awarded the prestigious literary award to the 64-year-old writer, whose plays are the most performed in Europe.
The Swedish Academy decided this Thursday, October 5. Jon Fosse, a 64-year-old writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his innovative plays and prose that gave voice to the unspeakable.”
By rewarding an author less known to the general public, the academy has not made a committed choice this year. There were other much more political favorites, like the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, pursued by a fatwa pronounced by Iran for his Satanic Verses (1988) and victim of a serious attack in August 2022. Or the Russian opponent of Putin Ludmila Oulitskaïa, compared by critics to the giants Tolstoy or Steinbeck.
This year’s literature laureate Jon Fosse writes novels heavily pared down to a style that has come to be known as ‘Fosse minimalism’.
This can be seen in his second novel ‘Stengd gitar’ (1985), when Fosse presents us with a harrowing variation on one of his major themes, the… pic.twitter.com/5v1fQ6C6CJ
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 5, 2023
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Annie Ernaux rewarded in 2022
Last year, it was Frenchwoman Annie Ernaux who won the prestigious distinction. A figure of feminism, the jury wanted to reward “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory”.
The Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, author in particular of Farewell Zanzibar, received the prize in 2021 for “his empathetic and uncompromising account of the effects of colonialism, and the fate of refugees caught between cultures and continents”. It was the American poet Louise Glück who was distinguished in 2020, recognized “for her characteristic poetic voice, which with its austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, and before her the abundant Austrian writer Peter Handke “for his work influential who, strong in linguistic ingenuity, explored the periphery and the singularity of human experience.
Saison 2023
The 2023 Nobel season was launched on Monday by the medicine prize. the Hungarian Katalin Kariko and the American Drew Weissman, pioneers of messenger RNA, the technology which opened the way to the discovery of vaccines against Covid-19, were rewarded. Tuesday October 3, this time for the Nobel Prize in Physics, three physicists – Ferenc Krausz, Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier – were rewarded for their work on very short laser pulses making it possible to follow the ultra-rapid movement of electrons at the inside molecules.
Finally, for chemistry, researchers Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov were rewarded on Wednesday October 4 for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”, major advances in the field of nanotechnologies. The season continues Friday with the Nobel Peace Prize, and Economics is expected on October 9.
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