Norwegian author wins greatest prize in world literature
Norwegian author Jon Fosse has published the third and final book of his Septology series, A New Name. Photograph: Michael Beck
Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse, 64, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023. His novel A New Name: Septology VI-VII, translated into English by Damion Searls, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize last year. The Nobel Prize, given for a writer’s entire body of work, is regarded as the most important prize in literature and comes with an award of 10 million Swedish krona . Previous winners include Toni Morrison, JM Coetzee - and even
The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, has in recent years tried to increase the diversity of authors considered for the award, after facing criticism that the vast majority of the past Nobel laureates have been European or North American, and only 17 of them have been women. Last year’s award went to French writer Annie Ernaux.
Seamus Heaney was the last Irish writer to be honoured, in 1995. Previous winners include Samuel Beckett ; WB Yeats and George Bernard Shaw .
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