![Norwegian author Jon Fosse at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, Norway, in 2019.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/YOYOYVAGKIUQBDM5Q6WWYKL5CU.jpg?auth=e90217a43ec0a8a3e22cdd42c0591908e177fe42cd6f02fc36e0e158062e2a5b&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Jon Fosse, a Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins the Nobel Prize in literature
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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