Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023, announced October 5, 2023. Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. Jon Fosse: born 1959, Haugesund, Norway. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).