Nobel Prize

English The Permanent Secretary Press release5 October 2023 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

Swedish Ständige sekreteraren Pressmeddelande5 oktober 2023 Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2023 Jon Fosse Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2023 tilldelas den norska författaren Jon Fosse, ”för hans nyskapande dramatik och prosa som ger röst åt det osägbara”.

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Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1929. From left: Owen Willans Richardson, physics laureate 1928; Louis de Broglie, physics laureate 1929; Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin, chemistry laureates 1929; Sir Frederick Hopkins, medicine laureate 1929 and Thomas Mann, literature laureate 1929.

Pär Lagerkvist after receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf at the award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 1951. Pär Lagerkvist ca 1951.

Literature laureates Nelly Sachs and Samuel Agnon preparing for the prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, 10 December 1966.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää in his home receives the news that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1939.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson receiving his Nobel Prize from the hands of King Oscar II, 10 December 1903. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and his wife Karoline in the livingroom at Aulestad, Gausdal, Norway, 1908.

Nobel Prize Conversations  “I don’t write about heroes, I write about small people” Abdulrazak Gurnah’s books often touch on the fate of the refugee and effects of colonialism. In this conversation, conudcted in June 2022, he speaks about his interest in how people cope with traumas or problems in their lives – and are…