Karl Ove Knausgaard. Sam Barker/Penguin Random House December 19, 2023 Knausgaard’s ambitious new novel imagines Europe’s last decades – ending with an ominous star and the return of the dead Alexander Howard, University of Sydney The Wolves of Eternity is remarkable – and deliberately challenging. Ranging across time and space, it muses on thinking trees, Putin’s Moscow, a Norwegian heatwave and the undead.
Jon Fosse. Markus Wissman / Shutterstock October 6, 2023 Jon Fosse: Nobel prize in literature winner is a playwright who puts outsiders centre stage Rikard Hoogland, Stockholm University The prize has gone to a Norwegian playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society.
Jon Fosse Hakon Mosvold Larsen/EPA October 6, 2023 Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving ‘voice to the unsayable’ Alexander Howard, University of Sydney For Jon Fosse, the fourth Norwegian to win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, writing has been a way of surviving.