The prize is value 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million).
Stockholm:
Norwegian writer and dramatist Jon Fosse gained the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his modern performs and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving physique mentioned on Thursday.
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is value 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million).
Established within the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, the prizes for achievements in literature, science and peace have been awarded since 1901, turning into a profession pinnacle within the fields.
The economics prize is a later addition established by the Swedish central financial institution.
Alongside the peace prize, literature has typically drawn essentially the most consideration, and controversy, thrusting lesser identified authors into the worldwide highlight in addition to lifting guide gross sales for well-established literary tremendous stars.
Over time, the literature prize has additionally picked winners effectively past the novelist custom, together with playwrights, historians, philosophers and poets, even breaking new floor with the award to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 2016.
Final yr’s Nobel was gained by one of many predominant favourites, writer Annie Ernaux, for her largely autobiographical books analyzing reminiscence and social inequality, making her the primary French girl to win the world’s most prestigious literary award.
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