Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize for Literature – DW – 10/05/2023

The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.

This year’s winner is Norwegian author Jon Fosse. The academy hailed his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

The award is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($990,000, €948,000).

Last year’s winner was French author Annie Ernaux, who the Swedish Academy praised for “courage and critical acuity.”

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to three scientists who developed quantum dot technology on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a group that studied electrons in flashes of light, and the Nobel Prize in Medicine was handed to two scientists who helped lay the groundwork for mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 at the start of the week.

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