From left: Physics laureate Emilio Segrè, medicine laureate Severo Ochoa and literature laureate Salvatore Quasimodo during Nobel Week in Stockholm, December 1959.

A Silent Language Jon Fosse delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2023 at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. He was introduced by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2023General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2023,…

Swedish Utdrag ur Det andra namnet. Septologin I-II Och jag ser mig stå och se på bilden med de två strecken, ett lila och ett brunt, som korsar varann på mitten, en avlång bild, och jag ser att jag har målat strecken långsamt och med tjock oljefärg, och den har runnit, och där den bruna…

Nobel Prize Conversations “It’s the insight, the work, the way you give yourself to the story that matters” Listen to a heartwarming conversation with Canadian ’master of short stories’ and literature laureate Alice Munro. This conversation between the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith and Munro took place soon after she was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize…

Norwegian Ekstrakt fra Det andre namnet. Septologien I-II Og eg ser meg stå og sjå mot biletet med dei to strekane, ein lilla og ein brun, som kryssar einannan på midten, eit avlangt bilete, og eg ser at eg har måla strekane langsamt og med tjukk oljemåling, og ho har runne, og der den brune og…

English Excerpt from The Other Name. Septology I-II And I see myself standing and looking at the picture with the two lines that cross in the middle, one purple line, one brown line, it’s a painting wider than it is high and I see that I’ve painted the lines slowly, the paint is thick, two…

Want to get started with 2023 literature laureate , but don’t know which book to pick up first? We spoke to Anders Olsson, Chairman of the The Nobel Committee for Literature who gave us three of his Fosse favourites. Stengd gitar My first choice is Fosse’s second novel Stengd gitar (1985), which presents us with…

Interview, December 2023 Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Jon Fosse, recorded in Stockholm on 9 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Jon Fosse answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): How did your writing career start? What inspired you to start writing? How…

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 to Jon Fosse, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 5 October 2023. Interview about the awarded work “What is special is that he touches on the deepest feelings that you have” Following the announcement, Anders Olsson, Chair of the Nobel Committee for…

Jon Fosse receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2023. Jon Fosse after receiving his prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2023. Medicine laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, literature laureate Jon Fosse and economic…