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Nobel Prize in Literature のーべるぶんがくしょう

Edition 116 (2023)

Literature awardInternational literature awardLifetime achievement award

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Jon Olav Fosse よん ふぉっせ Winner

This three-part novel follows painter Asle as memory, faith, loneliness, and loss slowly fold into one another in an almost unbroken flow of language. Its repetitions and silences draw the reader into a deeply interior meditation on existence and redemption.

Its long, flowing sentences turn memory and prayer into one continuous experience.

825 pages
memoryfaithsolituderepetitionredemption