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Overview: JON FOSSE (b. 1959) is a Norwegian author and dramatist. His oeuvre spans a variety of genres including a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
Fosse is one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world and his work has been translated into more than fifty languages. His writing is chararcterised by repetition, inner monologue, and a musical, evocative style. Thirty plays are included in this collection.
Although best known internationally as a playwright, Fosse has always written in other genres at an unusually high level. His novels include MELANCHOLY I (1995) and MELANCHOLY II (1996), about the real Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig. TRILOGY (2014) consists of three parts (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness) and is a beautiful and disturbing story about a fiddler and his girlfriend, for which Fosse won the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 2015.
Fosse’s longest work to date is SEPTOLOGY (2019–21), which he started during a break from playwrighting and after converting to Catholicism in 2013. Fosse has called his method of writing Septology "slow prose": a style of shifting levels, scenes, and reflections, the exact opposite of fast-paced drama. It is a suggestive, magnificent narrative about the nature of art and God, about alcoholism, friendship, love, and the passage of time.
His most recent prose work, the novel A SHINING (2023), is a luminous narrative exploring the boundary between life and death.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
A Shining | A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by National Book Award-finalist Jon Fosse, “the Beckett of the twenty-first century”
I Am the Wind | The 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 the distant islands, the threatening fog and gathering swell of the sea, bound together on an odyssey into the unknown.
Jon Fosse’s work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Nightsongs and The Girl on the Sofa, and his other plays in the following collections: Plays One, Plays Two, Plays Three, Plays Four and Plays Five. Plays Six is forthcoming in 2012.
Scenes from a Childhood | One of Norway’s most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. Scenes from a Childhood draws together a number of Fosse’s most powerful short pieces, spanning his entire career.
In the title work, we are presented with a loosely autobiographical narrative strand made up of multiple shards of memory covering infancy to awkward adolescence. The collection also contains Fosse’s haunting and dream-like novella And Then My Dog Will Come Back for Me, along with his first published story, `Him’, written in 1981.
Taken from various sources, this will be the first time that these pieces appear alongside each other in the same collection, offering readers the chance to discover the best of Fosse’s inimitable spare and poetic prose.
The Dead Dogs | A 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, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Jon Fosse’s drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters’ relationships.
Jon Fosse’s work includes novels, poetry, essays and books for children. He is one of the most produced playwrights in Europe and his plays have been translated into more than forty languages. Oberon Books publishes Plays One (Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child), Plays Two (A Summer’s Day, Dream of Autumn, Winter), Plays Three (Mother and Child, Sleep my Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, Death Variations), Plays Four (And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black), Plays Five (Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly’s Wing, Warm, Telemakos, Sleep), Nightsongs, The Girl on the Sofa and I Am The Wind. Fosse was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007 and received The International Ibsen Award in 2010.
Born and raised in Norway, May-Brit Akerholt now lives in Australia, where she is a recipient of a Fellowship from the Theatre Board of Australia Council. She has lectured on theatre at NIDA, worked as a Dramaturg and Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company and has translated numerous plays.
Trilogy, 2nd Edition | Trilogy 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, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption. Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams, and Weariness), Trilogy is a haunting, mysterious, and poignant evocation of love, for which Fosse received The Nordic Council’s Prize for Literature in 2015.
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