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The Permanent Secretary
Press release
5 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”.
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