Sao Paulo
Norwegian Jon Fosse, 64, has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday morning.
The writer is best known for his more than 40 plays, but also for his production of children’s works, poems and novels, which are constantly expanding in Brazil.
One of his books, “É a Ales,” a finalist for the International Booker Prize, has just been published in Brazil by Companhia das Letras and complements “Melancolia,” already published by Tordesilhas. Fósforo is about to release another album, “Brancura”.
Fosse’s work is characterized by characters engrossed in lyrical, existential investigations that span time and space the Swedish Academy spokesman cited Irish Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett as a writer similar in style to him.
Since 1901, the centuriesold Scandinavian Academy has presented the world’s greatest literary honor and has honored 120 people, including interruptions due to wars or sexual scandals. The selected person will receive 10 million Swedish kroner, which is equivalent to about R$4.7 million today.
Among all these winners, the Nobel Prize has already highlighted 17 women compared to 103 men, most recently the Frenchwoman Annie Ernaux last year.
It was the rare case of a writer who had already gained a good readership in the country before the award with works such as “O Lugar” and “O Acontecimento” and even more so after the trophy and the writer’s arrival at Flip. shortly afterwards, a happy coincidence for the literature festival in Paraty.
Popularity was not the case with the authors who were recently awarded, the American poet Louise Glück, whose works were successfully published in Brazil only after the Nobel Prize ceremony, and the Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who had never been in the country before the trophy has been published .
It is a rare coincidence for an author to develop his Brazilian publication and win the Nobel Prize at the same time, even though Fosse was one of the toprated bookmakers for at least a decade. But that usually doesn’t mean much says the Japanese Haruki Murakami.
When the Nobel Prize is able to boost the reading of several writers in Brazil, as was the case with Svetlana Aleksiévitch and Olga Tokarczuk, it sometimes also rewards already wellknown authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 winner, and even more so the composer Bob Dylan, who won the year before him.
SEE ALL THE NOBEL WINNERS IN LITERATURE TODAY
2022: Annie Ernaux (France)
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania)
2020: Louise Glück (USA)
2019: Peter Handke (Austria)
2018: Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (United Kingdom)
2016: Bob Dylan (USA)
2015: Svetlana Aleksiévitch (Belarus)
2014: Patrick Modiano (France)
2013: Alice Munro (Canada)
2012: Mo Yan (China)
2011: Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden)
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
2009: Herta Müller (RomaniaGermany)
2008: JMG Le Clézio (France)
2007: Doris Lessing (UK, but born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe)
2006: Orhan Pamuk (Türkiye)
2005: Harold Pinter (United Kingdom)
2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003: JM Coetzee (South Africa)
2002: Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
2001: VS Naipaul (born in Trinidad and Tobago but lives in the United Kingdom)
2000: Gao Xingjian (China)
1999: Günter Grass (Germany)
1998: Jose Saramago (Portugal)
1997: Dario Fo (Italy)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1995: Seamus Heaney (Ireland)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
1993: Toni Morrison (USA)
1992: Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, Caribbean island)
1991: Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1990: Octavio Paz (Mexico)
1989: Camilo Jose Cela (Spain)
1988: Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
1987: Joseph Brodsky (USA, Russian origin)
1986: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
1985: Claude Simon (France)
1984: Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia)
1983: William Golding (United Kingdom)
1982: Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
1981: Elias Canetti (United Kingdom, Bulgarian origin)
1980: Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)
1979: Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer (USA, Polish origin)
1977: Vicente Aleixandre (Spain)
1976: Saul Bellow (USA)
1975: Eugenio Montale (Italy)
1974: Eyvind Johnson (Sweden) and Harry Martinson (Sweden)
1973: Patrick White (Australia)
1972: Heinrich Böll (Germany)
1971: Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (USSR)
1969: Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
1968: Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala)
1966: Samuel José Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Germany)
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov (USSR)
1964: JeanPaul Sartre (France; declined the award)
1963: Giórgos Seféris (Greece)
1962: John Steinbeck (USA)
1961: Ivo Andric (Yugoslavia)
1960: SaintJohn Perse (France)
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo (Italy)
1958: Boris Pasternak (Soviet Union; renounced award)
1957: Albert Camus (France)
1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain)
1955: Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Iceland)
1954: Ernest Hemingway (USA)
1953: Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
1952: François Mauriac (France)
1951: Par Lagerkvist (Sweden)
1950: Bertrand Russell (United Kingdom)
1949: William Faulkner (USA)
1948: TS Eliot (Britain, born USA)
1947: André Gide (France)
1946: Hermann Hesse (Germany)
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1944: Johannes V. Jensen (Denmark)
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1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finland)
1938: Pearl S. Buck (USA)
1937: Roger Martin du Gard (France)
1936: Eugene O’Neill (USA)
1935: not granted
1934: Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
1933: Ivan Bunin (USSR)
1932: John Galsworthy (United Kingdom)
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden)
1930: Sinclair Lewis (USA)
1929: Thomas Mann (Germany)
1928: Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1927: Henri Bergson (France)
1926: Grazia Deledda (Italy)
1925: George Bernard Shaw (Ireland)
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont (Poland)
1923: WB Yeats (Ireland)
1922: Jacinto Benavente (Spain)
1921: Anatole France (France)
1920: Knut Hamsun (Norway)
1919: Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)
1918: Not granted
1917: Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan (both from Denmark)
1916: Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden)
1915: Romain Rolland (France)
1914: not granted
1913: R. Tagore (India)
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann (Germany)
1911: M. Maeterlinck (Belgium)
1910: Paul Heyse (Germany)
1909: Selma Lagerlöf (Sweden)
1908: Rudolf Eucken (Germany)
1907: Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom, but born in India)
1906: Giosuè Carducci (Italy)
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland)
1904: Frédéric Mistral (France) and José Echegaray (Spain)
1903: Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Norway)
1902: Theodor Mommsen (Germany)
1901: Sully Prudhomme (France)