Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse

STORY: Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse DATELINE: Oct. 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Stockholm CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): MATS MALM, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy 2. various of press conference 3. various of books of the laureate 4. various of Swedish Academy STORYLINE: Norwegian author Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced here on Thursday. SOUNDBITE (English): MATS MALM, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy "The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." Fosse's immense oeuvre, 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, the academy said. Fosse was born in 1959 in Haugesund, Norway. "While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in th