โ€˜I cried, I danced to Springsteenโ€™: in Australia, a Nobel laureateโ€™s translator celebrates their win

A world away from Norway in Australiaโ€™s Blue Mountains, May-Brit Akerholt works to bring Jon Fosseโ€™s work to English readers. โ€˜I reject the term translator,โ€™ she says. โ€˜I create a new versionโ€™May-Brit Akerholt first heard that Norwegian writer Jon Foss…

Jon Fosseโ€™s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the global stage

The critically acclaimed author is the first ever laureate in the prizeโ€™s history to write in Nynorsk and his win marks a further step in the Nordic stateโ€™s rise as a cultural powerhouseโ€ข Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literatureThis yearโ€™s win…