Fosse, Jon

Jon Fosse, 1959– , b. Haugesund, Norway, Norwegian author and playwright, studied at the University of Bergen (B.A.; M.A, 1987). His work is noted for it's spare existentialism and covers over seventy novels, plays, essays, and poems and he his one of the most widely performed playwrights. Fosse was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature for "his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."

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