Jon Fosse

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature 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 that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the...

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature 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...

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 aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature One of Jon Fosses 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 and his wife. Told partially in a...

I is Another 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 aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature This is Jon Fosses 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 child...

Fosse was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. His Septology sequence was a finalist for the National Book Award and the International Booker Prize. This slim volume would be an ideal entry point for new audiences of Fosse and an eagerly anticipated work for Fosse fans.

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjørgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. She leaves a note for her husband Frank, packs her bags and runs away while he is out fishing.

Mañana y tarde es una novela breve e inolvidable, sobre el nacimiento y la muerte, escrita por uno los grandes narradores y dramaturgos europeos de...

By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim begins a trilogy of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishing village. Jatgeir travels from the fishing village of Vaim to the city in search of a needle and thread. Cheated twice, he returns to his boat, where he falls asleep as waves rock the hull...

Un hombre conduce sin un rumbo en mente, hasta que su coche queda atascado al final de una pista forestal. Es una tarde de finales de otoño, ya casi no hay luz y comienza a nevar....

Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023. Trilogía una de las obras maestras de Jon Fosse. Libro recomendado por los lectores para empezar a leer a Jon Fosse. Trilogía...

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature 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 essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only...

El Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023 narra en este maravilloso libro la emocionante y triste historia de Lars Hertervig, un pintor noruego del siglo XIX.

Esta conversación es un recorrido por el fascinante camino espiritual que ha marcado la vida y la obra de Jon Fosse, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2023.

Ein Mann steigt in sein Boot, um über den Fjord in die Großstadt zu fahren. Als er von den Kaufleuten betrogen wird, macht er sich angewidert von den Großstädtern auf den Rückweg und entscheidet spontan, auf einer Insel haltzumachen.

Vor dem Hintergrund der norwegischen Landschaft, dem Meer, den Fjorden, erzählt Jon Fosse in diesem ersten Band seines Dreiteilers auf eindringliche...

Ein geheimnisvoller, fast magischer Roman über den Sinn des Lebens. Jon Fosses Roman spielt in unserer Welt, wenn auch nicht ganz. Da sind zwei...

Sola en su vieja casa de la costa noruega, Signe mira por la ventana y se ve a sí misma veinte años atrás, sentada ante la misma ventana, mientras espera el regreso de su marido, Asle, durante una terrible tarde de finales de noviembre en la que él se subió a su bote de remos para no regresar.