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Jon Fosse
Writing spare plays and the novel sequence Septology in Norwegian Nynorsk.
Someone Is Going to Come · Trilogy
- Born
- 29 September 1959
- Birthplace
- Haugesund, Norway
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Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse is a Norwegian writer whose repetitions and pauses express uncertainty, intimacy and spiritual questions.
Early life
Western Norway
Grew up near the Hardangerfjord.
University
Studied at the University of Bergen.
Career
- 1983
First novel
Published Red, Black.
- 1990s
Theatre
Began a dramatic career that spread internationally.
- 2023
Nobel Prize
Received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Selected work
Someone Is Going to Come
Turned a couple’s isolation into tense theatre.
Trilogy
Linked three short novels around love and survival.
Septology
Followed a painter through memory, doubles and faith.
Beyond work
Language
Writes in Nynorsk, one of Norway’s two written standards.
Faith
Converted to Catholicism in 2013.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Nobel Prize biography and award ↗Someone Is Going to Come — original theatre ↗Septology — publisher ↗Photo: Tom A. Kolstad/Det norske samlaget.. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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