Jon Fosse: 'A world phenomenon in both literature and drama' • FRANCE 24 English

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.” The novelist and playwright said the prize was recognition of “literature that first and foremost aims to be literature, without other considerations” — an ethos expressed in dozens of enigmatic plays, stories and novels, including a seven-volume epic made up of a single sentence. Fosse’s work, rooted in his Norwegian background, “focuses on human insecurity and anxiety," Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel literature committee, told The Associated Press. "The basic choices you make in life, very elemental stuff.” One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Fosse said he had “cautiously prepared” himself for a decade to receive the news that he had won. Celebrating a Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by award-winning Norwegian poet Dr. Rachel Rankin and Solrun Iversen, Theatre Director at Den Nationale Scene / The National Theatre.


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