Prize announcement

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 to Jon Fosse, by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 5 October 2023. After the announcement Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, presented the new laureate.

Interview about the awarded work

“What is special is that he touches on the deepest feelings that you have”

Following the announcement, Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature, was interviewed by the Nobel Prize Museum’s Carin Klaesson about the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to Jon Fosse.

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