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Jon Fosse

Born

in Haugesund, Norway

September 29, 1959

Genre

Theatre, Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Samuel Beckett, August Strindberg, Jacques Derrida, Knut Hamsun ...more

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Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.

He was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayabl ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 81,475 ratings · 12,915 reviews · 251 distinct works • Similar authors

	Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 14,268 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Shining by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 14,417 ratings — published 2023 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trilogía by Jon Fosse, Cristina Gómez Baggethum (translator), Kirsti Baggethum (translator ) 3.90 avg rating — 10,406 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 7,149 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 5,771 ratings — published 2004 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 3,378 ratings — published 2020 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Septology 4.47 avg rating — 2,894 ratings — published 2022 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.49 avg rating — 2,869 ratings — published 2021 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vaim by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 2,739 ratings — published 2025 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melancholy by Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Grethe Kvernes (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 2,028 ratings — published 1995 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jon Fosse

Septologien (4 books)
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4.27 avg rating — 17,492 ratings

Trilogien (3 books)
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3.90 avg rating — 13,287 ratings

Melancholia (2 books)
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3.85 avg rating — 2,583 ratings

Hundemanuskripta (3 books)
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Jon Fosse

3.15 avg rating — 633 ratings

مجموعه‌ی آثار نمایشی یون فوسه (10 books)
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2.99 avg rating — 141 ratings

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“...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...”
― Jon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire

tags: big-words, truth, words

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“and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and maybe that’s why my good paintings, yes, all good paintings, have something to do with what I, what Christians, call The Holy Spirit, because all good art has this spirit, good pictures, good poems, good music, and what makes it good is not the material, not matter, and it’s not the content, the idea, the thought, no, what makes it good is just this unity of matter and form and soul that becomes spirit, that’s what culture is, probably, he says, it’s probably just one person being like another person that creates a culture, for example wearing a suit and tie, while what art is, yes, art is everyone just being like themselves, and totally themselves”
― Jon Fosse, Septology

tags: art, culture, identity, meaning, soul, spirit

15 likes

“...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything...”
― Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II

tags: death, dying, god, humanity, spirituality

14 likes

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