Jon Fosse, Catholic convert, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

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The acclaimed Norwegian novelist and playwright entered the Catholic Church in 2012. His novel 'Septology' concerns a painter's relationship with God.​

Norwegian playwright and novelist Jon Fosse is the recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature the committee announced on Thursday. Fosse, who the Nobel committee selected for his “wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations,” became a Catholic in 2012. He was already a highly acclaimed writer at that time.

Fosse has described his writing process as “the experience of entering a new place.” He told a New Yorker interviewer:

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Jon Fosse, Catholic convert, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The acclaimed Norwegian novelist and playwright entered the Catholic Church in 2012. His novel 'Septology' concerns a painter's relationship with God.

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