“Writing can save lives“, he stated today the Norwegian Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, speaking in a lecture before his prize was awarded about the many suicides in his writings.
“If my writing can also contribute to saving other people’s lives, nothing would make me happier,” the playwright said during a lecture in Stockholm ahead of the awards ceremony. Nobel which will take place on Sunday.
THE author he admitted that he had more suicides in his works than he thought.
“I was afraid that in this way I contributed to the justification of suicide“, he stated.
However, his readers also said that Fosse’s writings “quite simply saved their lives”, after the announcement of his Nobel prize, the author added, stressing that he was very moved by these testimonies.
“In a sense, I always knew that writing could save lives, maybe even mine.“, he added.
The Swedish Academy announced in October that it had singled out the 64-year-old author “for his innovative plays and prose, which gave voice to the unspeakable.”
Jon Fosse, who is sometimes compared to Samuel Beckett, another Nobel-winning dramatist, does not care about plot, keeps himself to the strict minimum and uses a simple and stripped-down language where the key to understanding is rhythm, musicality and pauses.
Fosse will receive his award, which is accompanied by a medal and prize money of 11 million Swedish kroner (€980,000), from King Carl II Gustav of Sweden on the anniversary of the death (1896) of scientist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
Source: News Beast
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