Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury playwright Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize
09 Ottobre 2023 - 2:00PM
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09 October 2023
Bloomsbury playwright Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in
Literature
9 October, LONDON : Bloomsbury, the leading independent
publisher, is pleased to announce that its author Jon Fosse, the
Norwegian playwright, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature
"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the
unsayable."
According to the citation of the Nobel committee, "his immense
oeuvre, written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of
genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections,
essays, children's books and translations. While he is today one of
the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also
become increasingly recognised for his prose."
Jon Fosse has won many European awards and in 2007 he was made a
Knight in France's National Order of Merit. He has written 40
plays, performed around the world in different languages, including
the Septology series of novels, Aliss at the Fire, Melancholy and A
Shining.
Winning the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jon Fosse becomes
the 8th Nobel-Prize winning writer from Bloomsbury's imprint
Methuen Drama, joining Peter Handke, Dario Fo, Toni Morrison, Wole
Soyinka, Luigi Pirandello, John Galsworthy and George Bernard
Shaw.
Fosse's first English language play collection was published by
Oberon Books, acquired by Bloomsbury in 2019, which has now
published six collections of his plays, alongside single playtexts
including I Am The Wind and The Dead Dogs to coincide with major
premiere productions in London.
Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury , commented: "Jon
Fosse's remarkable body of dramatic work was fiercely championed by
Oberon Books, now part of Methuen Drama, within the Bloomsbury
Academic division, since the publication of his first English
language play collection in 2002. Since then, we have published
five further anthologies, totalling over 30 plays and a number of
standalone translations and adaptations by some of the world's most
successful contemporary dramatists. While he is one of the
most-performed writers in Europe, his dramatic canon is less
well-known on U.K. stages and we hope that with this historic win,
the English speaking theatre community will discover and fall for
his unique linguistic style, poetic naturalism and formally
inventive work that manages to be both existential and
life-affirming."
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Dan de Belder/Emily Brooker bloomsbury@hudsonsandler.com
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