The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to the Norwegian playwright, author and poet Jon Fosse. The committee said the honor was for, quote, "his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable." 

Princeton University 2020 Translator in Residence Damion Searls, a translator from German, Norwegian, French, and Dutch, has translated 10 of Fosse's books, including a libretto, a play, a forthcoming children’s book and "Septology" — one novel, in seven parts, published in three volumes — which was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 

Searls has also translated many classic modern writers, including Proust, Rilke, Nietzsche, Ingeborg Bachmann, Döblin, Jelinek, Gide, Walser, Christa Wolf, Modiano, and Nescio. His own books include "What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going," "The Inkblots" and "The Philosophy of Translation."