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Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse (born 29 September 1959 in Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian author who writes in Nynorsk. His body of work spans novels, poetry, essays, children's books and plays, and he is among the most widely performed playwrights in the world. His prose is known for a minimalist, incantatory style; the novel sequence Septology, completed in 2021, is considered his major prose work. In 2023 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the un...