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Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and has written over thirty books and twenty-eight plays that have been translated into over 40 languages. He is one of the world’s most produced living playwrights. In 2007, he was made a Knight in France’s National Order of Merit, and he was awarded the International Ibsen Award in 2010.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview

Jon Fosse

‘To me writing is a kind of listening. I don’t know what I am listening to, but I am listening!’

Fiction | Issue 140
Fiction | Issue 140

Boathouse

Jon Fosse

‘It was this summer that the restlessness came over me.’ Translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt.

Fiction | Issue 131
Fiction | Issue 131

Dreamed in Stone

Jon Fosse

‘You were a chasm that cracked and turned into stones, and then the stones lay there, beautifully laid, in a wall.’

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