For some of the winners of the award, which will be announced this Thursday in Stockholm, it was a ‘kiss of death.’ Many never wrote any more notable works, and others felt uneasy about the loss of their privacy
The Norwegian author – who will receive the award from the Swedish Academy on Sunday, December 10, in Stockholm – spoke exclusively with EL PAÍS in Oslo. ‘There are people who love my writing and people who hate it’
At the core of the author’s theatrical works are waiting, loneliness and a sense of emptiness immediately recognizable to any European urban man
The author of 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays, Fosse was honored ‘for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable,’ according to the Swedish Academy
