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Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature

A Norwegian writer, Jon Fosse, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature. Though little-known outside his home country, he is celebrated in literary circles.

Jon Fosse has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."

The 64-year-old playwright is not well-known outside his home country of Norway, where he was born on the

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