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Jon Fosse

Norway (b.1959)

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children's books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. The Other Name is the first volume in Septology, his latest prose work which will be published in three volumes by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Awards: Nobel (2023) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Melancholy
1. Melancholy (2006)
2. Melancholy II (2014)

Septology
   1. The Other Name (2019)
   2. I is Another (2020)
   3. A New Name (2021)

Novels

Trilogy (2016)
Boathouse (2017)

Collections

Poems (poems) (2014)
Scenes from a Childhood (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

   Aliss At the Fire (2010)
   Morning and Evening (2015)
   A Shining (2023)

Plays show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Jon Fosse

Best European Fiction 2016 (2015)
(Best European Fiction)
edited by
Nathaniel Davis

Best European Fiction 2010 (2009)
(Best European Fiction)
edited by
Aleksandar Hemon

Awards

2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

Award nominations

	2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : A New Name: Septology VI-VII
	2022 International Booker Prize (nominee) : A New Name: Septology VI-VII
	2020 International Booker Prize (nominee) : The Other Name: Septology I-II

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