The playwright Jon Fosse from Norway gets the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.

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Jon Fosse has been given the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays & prose which provide a voice to the unsayable."

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The 64-year-old playwright was raised in the western Norwegian city of Haugesund but is rarely known outside of his home country. 

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But the author is well-known in literary circles all over the world and is called "the most produced living playwright." 

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The Norwegian government has long provided him with full support, including a lifetime salary and housing close to Oslo's Royal Palace, 

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and he has earned prestigious distinctions from all across Europe. In 2007, he was made a Knight of France's National Order of Merit.

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According to the Nobel committee's citation, "His enormous oeuvre, written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres, 

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consists of a wealth of plays, poetry collections, novels, children's books, essays, and translations." 

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Despite being one of the writers with the most performances now, he is also becoming well known for his prose.

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