{"id":7332,"date":"2023-12-10T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2023-12-10T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:02:05","slug":"nobel-literature-winner-jon-fosse-writing-can-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/nobel-literature-winner-jon-fosse-writing-can-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Literature Winner Jon Fosse : Writing Can Save Lives\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nobel Literature Award laureate Jon Fosse on Thursday said that \u201cwriting can save lives\u201d, as he reflected on the many suicides that featured in his writing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf my writing also can help to save the lives of others, nothing would make me happier,\u201d the Norwegian playwright said in his Nobel lecture in Stockholm ahead of Sunday\u2019s gala prize ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Fosse noted that there were more suicides in his works \u201cthan I like to think about\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to AFP \u201cI have been afraid that I, in this way, may have contributed to legitimising suicide,\u201d Fosse said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the author said that he had been deeply touched by congratulations following the announcement of his Nobel nod, where fans said his writing \u201chad quite simply saved their lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a sense I have always known that writing can save lives, perhaps it has even saved my own life,\u201d Fosse said.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the prize in early October, the Swedish Academy said the 64-year-old was honoured \u201cfor his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes compared to Samuel Beckett, another Nobel-winning playwright, Fosse\u2019s work is minimalistic, relying on simple language that delivers its message through rhythm, melody and silence.<\/p>\n<p>Fosse will receive his prize, which comes with a medal and a sum of 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million), from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of scientist and inventor Alfred Nobel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events &nbsp; Nobel Literature Award laureate Jon Fosse on Thursday said that \u201cwriting can save lives\u201d, as he reflected on the many suicides that featured in his writing. \u201cIf my writing also can help to save the lives of others, nothing would make me happier,\u201d the Norwegian playwright said in his Nobel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}