2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Jon Fosse. The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 5 October 2023.

The citation

The citation reads: "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable".

The laureate

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 in Haugesund, Norway.

Why it matters

The Norwegian writer is one of the most performed playwrights in the world, and his novels include the seven-part Septology.

The prize

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.