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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, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.

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Series

Melancholy


A Literary Fiction series (2006 - 2014)

Septology


A Literary Fiction series (2019 - 2022)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Doppelgängers and alternate selves
  • Hypnotic perspective-blurring prose
  • Slow meditations on art and solitude

Vaim Trilogy


A Literary Fiction series (2025 - 2026)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Uncanny Nordic villages with a ghost-haunted chill
  • Ordinary life tipping into the surreal
  • Darkly funny literary fiction about longing and aftermath

Standalone Fiction

Scenes from a Childhood

Scenes from a Childhood

Short story collection

Nightsongs

Nightsongs

Script

I Am The Wind

I Am The Wind

Script

The Dead Dogs

The Dead Dogs

Script

Trilogy

Trilogy

Short story collection

A Shining

A Shining

Short story

Standalone Non-fiction

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