Jon Fosse: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
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This year’s Nobel prize in Literature has been awarded to Norwegian novelist, playwright, essayist and translator Jon Fosse ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’.
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion SearlsScenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion SearlsShortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize | Winner of the 2021 Brage Prize | Winner of the 2021 Norwegian Critic’s Prize | Longlisted for the 2022…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion SearlsWhat makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion SearlsAsle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by May-Brit AkerholtTrilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless,…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion SearlsAsle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying in the…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion SearlsShortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize | Winner of the 2021 Brage Prize | Winner of the 2021 Norwegian Critic’s Prize | Longlisted for the 2022…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion Searls and Grethe KvernesMelancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental…
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Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureTranslated by Damion Searls and Grethe KvernesMelancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered…
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Translated by Damion SearlsWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023“He has a surgeon's ability to use the scalpel and to cut into the most prosaic, everyday happenings, to tear loose fragments from life, to place them under…
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Translated by Kim Dambæk, Ann Henning Jocelyn & Louis MuinzerIncludes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and WinterThese three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity.…
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Translated by May-Brit AkerholtIncludes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death VariationsMother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a first date,…
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Translated by Louis Muinzer, May-Brit Akerholt & Ann Henning-JocelynIncludes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes blackIn And We'll Never be Parted, Jon…
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Translated by May-Brit AkerholtIncludes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos and SleepIn their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a common…
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Translated by May-Brit AkerholtA young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before...In The Dead Dogs,…
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Translated by Simon StephensThe wind gathers, rising up suddenly.Two men on a fragile boat, a trip to sea – a few drinks, a bite to eat – when one of them decides to push on to the open ocean. Suddenly there they are: among…
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Translated by David HarrowerA girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself…
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