01 · The contribution
The idea, in everyday language
Some experiences resist a neat explanation: grief, longing, fear, a sense of another person’s absence. Fosse often approaches them through spare dialogue, repeated phrases and pauses that carry as much weight as the words.
In his fiction, sentences can flow through memory and present experience without a sharp dividing line. The effect asks the reader to stay with uncertainty. The prize recognises a body of literary work, rather than a single book or a scientific finding.
Why it matters
His work has renewed the language of contemporary theatre and brought writing in Nynorsk to a wide international audience.
