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Also Known As Jon Olav Fosse
Born September 29, 1959 (age 65) • Haugesund • Norway
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2023)

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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Harold Pinter
British dramatist
Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England
John Galsworthy
British writer
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Mo Yan
Mo Yan
Chinese author
Maurice Maeterlinck, c. 1890.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Belgian author
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author