Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Norwegian writer Jon Fosse for "his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable", according to the Swedish Academy.

One of his country's most-performed dramatists, Fosse, 64, has written nearly 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children's books, poetry and essays.

Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the academy, announced the prize on Thursday in Stockholm. Malm said he reached Fosse by telephone to inform him of the prize and that the writer was driving in the countryside and promised to drive home carefully.