# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-fosse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:03:45.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-fosse"
name: "Jon Fosse"
slug: "jon-fosse"
description: "Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature \"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.\""
tagline: "Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Writer_Jon_Fosse_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1959-09-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  110
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump