Norway’s Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in LiteratureAP, STOCKHOLMNorwegian writer Jon Fosse won the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday, for plays and prose that “give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy said. Nobel literature committee chair Anders Olsson said Fosse’s work is rooted “in the language and nature of his Norwegian background.”Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse poses for a photo at the Norwegian Theater in Oslo on Sept. 6, 2019. Photo:AFPSwedish Academy permanent secretary Mats Malm, who announced the prize, reached Fosse by telephone to inform him of the win. Ernaux was just the 17th woman among the 119 Nobel literature laureates. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers, as well as being too male-dominated.
