Stockholm: Norwegian writer Jon Fosse has won the Nobel Prize for literature. Academy Secretary Mats Mamm announced the award with the remark that Fosse’s plays and prose have become the voice of the voiceless. The Academy said that Fosse’s writings are deeply marked by human curiosity and conflicting emotions.
Sixty-four-year-old Fosse was born in Norway in 1950. So far 40 plays have been composed. Apart from these, he has proved his ability in many articles, poems, novels, children’s literature and translation. He first wrote a novel called Red and Black which was released in 1983. The books Boathouse, Melancholy and Septology are famous.
For the past few years, Fosse has been on the list of possible winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Last year, the literary award went to French writer Anne Ernox. The prize money is 11 million Swedish kroner.
