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Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)
Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latestwork of fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde).
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The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, published in one volume for the first time.
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Jon Fosse
Scenes 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 unsettling quality of his…
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Jon Fosse, May-Brit Akerholt (trans.)
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…
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The Other Name: Septology I-II, a major new work by Jon Fosse, one of Europe’s most celebrated writers, follows the lives of Asle and Asle - two versions of the…
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A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde).
Written in melodious and hypnotic ‘slow prose’, Septology is an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, ‘a major European writer’ (Karl Ove Knausgaard).
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…
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Includes the plays Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly's Wings, Warm, Telemakos and Sleep
In their different ways, these plays are existential suspense stories, centred around a…
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Includes A Summer's Day, Dream of Autumn and Winter
These three seasonal plays are typical Fosse, imbuing apparently mundane situations with an almost hypnotic intensity. In A Summer's Day, an…
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.
Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations
Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individuals trying to connect. Like strangers on a…
The essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition."If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of…
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…
Includes the plays Someone is Going to Come, The Guitar Man, The Name and The Child
In Someone is Going to Come the two of them want to be together…
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…
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, whopainted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illnessand died poor in 1902.
This 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 Jon Fosse’s vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. Aliss at…
Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes black
In And We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits…
Latest collection of plays by leading & award-winning European playwright.
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Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse'sNobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December2023, translated by Damion Searls.
I is Another: Septology III-V, the second instalment in a major new work by Jon Fosse, one of Europe’s most celebrated writers, follows the lives of Asle and Asle -…
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A biography and study of the work of Jon Fosse, judged by many to be Norway’s greatest contemporary writer. Translated here by playwright and translator Ann Henning-Jocelyn
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an…
Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of…
Jon Fosse (Author)
A collection of plays from one of Europe’s most produced and translated playwrights. This is Plays One. One of the many collections which are published by Oberon Books. Includes the…
The Girl on the Sofa is a translation of a play by Norway’s greatest living writer, Jon Fosse. Translated here by Socttish playwright David Harrower and oroiginally produced at Edinburgh’s…
One of Jon Fosse's most acclaimed novels, Boathouse is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator leading a largely hermit-like existence until he unexpectedly encounters a long-lost childhood friend…
A new volume of plays from one of the leading Norwegian writers.
A single play edition of The Dead Dogs, translated by May-Brit Akerholt written by Jon Fosse, Europe’s most performed playwright. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an…
Jon Fosse is one of Europe’s most performed contemporary dramatists; this is the latest collection of his plays in English.
Features four plays: And We’ll Never be Parted , The Son , Visits , and Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black . The Son concerns an ageing…
Play from 2010 Ibsen Award winning writer to be directed by Cannes Jury Prize winner Paul Chereau.
Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Asleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist…
Originally published in English translation by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the Uk in 2020 –Title page verso.
WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
2022 International Booker Prize, Finalist 2022 National Book Award, Finalist 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist New York Times Editors' Choice…