Norwegian author Jon Fosse has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Betting sites had tipped Fosse, a playwright whose work is among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in Europe to win the award.
The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by their creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Winners also receive an 18-carat gold medal and diploma at the award ceremonies in December.
Last year, French author Annie Ernaux won the prize for what the prize-giving Swedish Academy called “the courage and clinical acuity” of books rooted in her small-town background in the Normandy region of northwest France.
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 too male-dominated.
In 2018, the Nobel literature committee decided to delay the award ceremony due to the uproar caused by allegations of sexual abuse within the academy. This controversy led to several members leaving the Swedish Academy. Despite efforts to reform itself, the academy faced further scrutiny and backlash when it awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature to Peter Handke of Austria, who has been accused of downplaying or justifying Serbian war crimes.
Moungi Bawendi from MIT, Louis Brus from Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov from Nanocrystals Technology Inc. were awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their groundbreaking research on quantum dots—tiny particles capable of emitting exceptionally vibrant colored light. These quantum dots have a wide range of practical applications in areas such as electronics and medical imaging.
Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-American, and Drew Weissman, an American scientist, were honored with the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their pivotal contributions that paved the way for the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
On Tuesday, the physics prize was granted to Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, for their achievement in capturing a brief glimpse into the lightning-fast realm of spinning electrons.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded on Friday, while the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will conclude the awards season on Monday.
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