Author(s): Jon Fosse (translated by Damion Searls)

Literature | 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature | Norway | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2023, translated by Damion Searls.

'We are in the presence of rare literary greatness. It is for this greatness that the Swedish Academy has justly awarded Jon Fosse the Nobel prize.'
- Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.'
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Wolves of Eternity

'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.'
- Le Monde

Author Biography:

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. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'.