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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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MLA style: Press release. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. Sun. 15 Dec 2024. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2023/press-release/>

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