Norwegian writer Jon Fosse (64 years old) has become the owner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his plays and creative works that gave voice to the seemingly unspeakable".
During his career, Jon Fosse wrote plays, novels and poems, wrote commentaries, translated... At the age of 7, Jon Fosse had a serious accident that almost killed him, this experience greatly influenced his writing style later on.
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse (64 years old) has become the owner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature (Photo: Business Insider).
Jon Fosse's works have been translated into more than 40 languages. During his career as a playwright and novelist, Jon Fosse has received many prestigious awards.
Some of the outstanding novels in the writing career of writer Jon Fosse include Raudt, svart (Red and Black - 1983), Stengd gitar (Closed Guitar - 1985), Morgon og kveld (Dawn and Night - 2000), Det er Ales (Aliss by the Fire - 2004)...
Every February, the members of the Swedish Academy will consider about 200 potential candidates. A shortlist will be released in May. The members of the Swedish Academy will continue to select the final 5 authors to vote, finding the owner of the Nobel Prize in Literature that year.
The winner is an author who comes closest to the criteria set by scientist Alfred Nobel for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which is to create "outstanding works in an ideal direction".
The remarkable thing about the Nobel Prize in Literature is that it is only awarded to living writers and poets. The prize honors the author's entire creative career, not a specific work.
Medal for Nobel Prize winner (Photo: Nobel Prize).
Each Nobel Prize winner receives a gold-plated medal, a hand-drawn diploma, and a cash prize of 8 million to 10 million Swedish krona. From 2023, the prize money will be fixed at 11 million krona (equivalent to 24.3 billion VND).
In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan. This awarding move created a big debate in the world of literature, when for the first time in the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a singer and songwriter received the award for... "poetic ideas in lyrics".
In 2017, the prize was awarded to Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. In 2018, due to some scandals, the Swedish Academy did not award the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2019, two names were announced: the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, and the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke.
In the past three years, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American writer and poet Louise Glück, Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, and French writer Annie Ernaux.
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