Results for "Fosse, Jon"

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist2022 National Book Award, Finalist2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, FinalistNew York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and BookforumWhat makes us who we are? And why do we... Read More about Septology

WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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, f... Read More about A Shining

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 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 chi... Read More about Trilogy (Dalkey Archive Essentials)

The lives of an aging painter and his doppelganger converge and diverge in an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives, in the first volume of the celebrated Norwegian writer's Septology.... Read More about The Other Name: Septology I-II

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and en... Read More about Morning and Evening (Norwegian Literature)

From the 2023 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a haunting masterpiece exploring love, loss, and human fate. In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on tha... Read More about Aliss at the Fire (Norwegian Literature)