Nobel prize in literature 2023 won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse – as it happened

Norwegian author Jon Fosse in Oslo, Norway, pictured in 2019. Photograph: Hakon Mosvold Larsen/EPA

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The Nobel peace prize will be announced tomorrow at 10am BST (11:00 CEST).

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Literary critic Catherine Taylor says: “Reading Jon Fosse’s work is a profound experience, deeply spiritual, not to say religious. Fosse has claimed that ‘actually we’re longing for God, because the human being is a continuous prayer’ – and whether that’s true or not, his books are nothing short of miraculous.”

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