Norwegian author Jon Fosse is an all-rounder whose writing is defined more by form than content -- what is not said is often more revealing than what is.
Fosse -- a novelist, essayist, poet and children's author but who is best known as a playwright -- won the Nobel prize in literature on Thursday.
He grew up in a family which followed a strict form of Lutheranism and rebelled by playing in a band and declaring himself an atheist. The 64-year-old ended up converting to Catholicism in 2013. His work has been translated into around 50 languages. According to his Norwegian publisher Samlaget, his plays have been staged more than 1,000 times around the world.
"The sociological elements are present: unemployment, loneliness, broken families, but the essential matter is what's in between. What's in the cracks, the gaps between the characters and the elements of the text. Married three times, the father-of-six gave up drinking some years ago after being treated in hospital for alcohol poisoning.
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