MORE REACTION TO JON FOSSE WINNING THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

I’m asked to write a response to the Nobel Prize.

To news of Jon Fosse of Norway winning the Prize. An 11 million Swedish krona-not-dollars cash prize, awarded in Sweden. Includes a speech. The prize named after someone who invented dynamite.

Should we care about a prize using funds from the man who invented dynamite? To help him ease his conscience? To save his soul from the terrors of night, though it might already be too late? That he waited too long to see the light, to set aside funds in his name for a prize? When the damage had been done?

What next: the Oppenheimer Prize?

I await the opportunity to provide comment for that one.

-Ellsworth B. Smith