Norwegian author Jon Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for his extensive body of work that spans multiple genres, from plays and novels to poetry collections, essays and children’s books that "give voice to the unsayable.”
"While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognized for his prose," the Nobel committee said in a press release.
The work of the 64-year-old writer, a master of Nordic literature who writes in Norwegian Nynorsk, has been translated into more than 50 languages. He has produced more than 30 plays that have been performed on stage "over a thousand times around the world," according to his publishing house, Samlaget.
“I am overwhelmed and grateful," Fosse said in a statement. "I see this as an award to the literature that first and foremost aims to be literature, without other considerations."
In 1983, Fosse's first novel called "Red, Black" was published. Several other works followed before his breakthrough novel came in 1989 with the publication of "Boathouse." In 1992, after solidifying his status as a novelist, he wrote his first play, "Someone Is Going to Come," which would bring him international acclaim.
The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
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Most aficionados had never heard of the winner of this year’s award. Jon Fosse writes mainly in the Nynorsk language, which is, even among Norwegian writers, a minority pursuit
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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Jon Fosse was born 1959 in Haugesund on the Norwegian west coast. His immense œuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose. His debut novel ‘Raudt, svart’ (1983), as rebellious as it was emotionally raw, broached the theme of suicide and, in many ways, set the tone for his later work.
Fosse’s European breakthrough as a dramatist came with Claude Régy’s 1999 Paris production of his play ‘Nokon kjem til å komme’ (1996; ‘Someone Is Going to Come’, 2002). Even in this early piece, with its themes of fearful anticipation and crippling jealousy, Fosse’s singularity is fully evident. In his radical reduction of language and dramatic action, he expresses the most powerful human emotions of anxiety and powerlessness in the simplest everyday terms. It is through this ability to evoke man’s loss of orientation, and how this paradoxically can provide access to a deeper experience close to divinity, that he has come to be regarded as a major innovator in contemporary theatre.
In common with his great precursor in Norwegian Nynorsk literature Tarjei Vesaas, Fosse combines strong local ties, both linguistic and geographic, with modernist artistic techniques. He includes in his Wahlverwandschaften such names as Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard and Georg Trakl. While Fosse shares the negative outlook of his predecessors, his particular gnostic vision cannot be said to result in a nihilistic contempt of the world. Indeed, there is great warmth and humour in his work, and a naïve vulnerability to his stark images of human experience.
In his second novel ‘Stengd gitar’ (1985), Fosse presents us with a harrowing variation on one of his major themes, the critical moment of irresolution. A young mother leaves her flat to throw rubbish down the chute but locks herself out, with her baby still inside. Needing to go and seek help, she is unable to do so since she cannot abandon her child. While she finds herself, in Kafkaesque terms, ‘before the law’, the difference is clear: Fosse presents everyday situations that are instantly recognisable from our own lives. As with his first book, the novel is heavily pared down to a style that has come to be known as ‘Fosse minimalism’.
In ‘Sterk vind’ (2021), referred to as ‘a dramatic poem’, Fosse’s increasing use of imagery and symbolism in his plays becomes apparent. From as far back as the 1986 publication of his first poetry collection ‘Engel med vatn i augene’, lyrical language has always served as a great resource in his writing. The recent edition of his collected poetry, ‘Dikt i samling’ (2021), testifies to the important role poetry has played for him over the years in providing the basis for his elementary diction and sense of the limits of language.
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Anders Olsson
Chairman of the Nobel Committee
The Swedish Academy
This year’s literature laureate Jon Fosse writes novels heavily pared down to a style that has come to be known as ‘Fosse minimalism’.
This can be seen in his second novel ‘Stengd gitar’ (1985), when Fosse presents us with a harrowing variation on one of his major themes, the critical moment of irresolution. A young mother leaves her flat to throw rubbish down the chute but locks herself out, with her baby still inside. Needing to go and seek help, she is unable to do so since she cannot abandon her child. While she finds herself, in Kafkaesque terms, ‘before the law’, the difference is clear: Fosse presents everyday situations that are instantly recognisable from our own lives.
At the same time, there is a sense of trepidation and a powerful ambivalence. This later comes to feature in his dramatic work, in which he is able to make use of pauses and interruptions to express this uncertainty – and moreover charge them with emotion. In his plays, we are confronted with words or acts that appear incomplete, a lack of resolution that continues to preoccupy our minds.
It is the human condition that is Fosse’s central theme, irrespective of genre. Fosse’s courage in opening himself up to the uncertainties and anxieties of everyday life lies behind the extraordinary recognition he has received.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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【挪威作家福瑟獲得諾貝爾文學獎】
這位挪威作家最著名的身份是劇作家✍️，作品曾在世界各地上演。 他的代表作之一是一部關於藝術與上帝的1250頁單句小說。
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【2023年諾貝爾文學獎】 羅珊珊／以詩為基本語彙的劇作家：庸．佛瑟
2023年諾貝爾文學獎得主為挪威作家庸．佛瑟（Jon Fosse，1959-），「表彰他以創新的戲劇和散文，為難以言喻的事物發聲。」
庸．佛瑟於1959年出生於挪威西岸的海于格松。獲獎當時，他正在挪威的西海岸的小屋裡，接受當地的電視台採訪。有「新易卜生」之稱的他，儘管以戲劇作品最為知名，然而作品涵蓋多種文體，包括戲劇、小說、詩集、散文、兒童讀物等。
佛瑟如今是世界上劇本被演出最廣泛的劇作家之一，但他的散文也愈來愈受到認可。他的處女作小說《紅、黑》（1983）既叛逆又充滿原始的情感，並觸及自殺主題，在許多層面上為他後來的作品定下了基調。他的第一部戲劇《我們永遠不會分開》於 1994 年上演並出版劇本。
庸．佛瑟在歐洲的突破是克勞德．雷吉（Claude Régy）於1999年在巴黎將其劇本《有人將至》搬上舞台。在這早期作品中，以恐懼的期待和強烈的嫉妒為主題，明顯展現佛瑟的獨特性。其中語言和戲劇動作皆盡量減少，取而代之是以最簡單的日常用語表達人類最強烈的焦慮和無力感，因此被視為當代戲劇的主要創新者。與他在挪威文學中的偉大先驅塔爾吉．維薩斯（Tarjei Vesaas）一樣，佛瑟運用語言，將地理上的聯繫與現代主義藝術技巧結合起來。也常有人將他和貝克特（Samuel Beckett）或托馬斯．伯恩哈德（Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard）相提並論。雖然佛瑟和他的前輩們一樣傾向消極，但其獨特觀點並非完全是虛無主義或蔑視感，事實上，他的作品充滿溫暖和幽默，同時也將人類經驗的鮮明形象刻畫出脆弱的天真。佛瑟呈現的日常情境緊繫於一般人的生活，就像他的處女作一樣，被稱為「佛瑟極簡主義」風格。
而在被稱為「一首戲劇詩」的《Sterk vind》（2021）中，佛瑟愈見頻繁地使用意象和象徵主義。早在1986年他的首本詩集《Engel med vatn i augene》，抒情語言就一直是他寫作的重要資源。他最近重出的詩選集《Dikt i samling》（2021）更證明了詩歌在他創作中的重要性，詩，多年來一直為他提供著創作的基本語彙，以及劃分出語言所能到達的界限。
photo：挪威劇作家庸．佛瑟。（美聯社）
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