A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Jon Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright born on September 29, 1959, in Haugesund, Norway. Raised by a family of Quakers and Pietists, he studied comparative literature at the University of Bergen and debuted with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, Black) in 1983. His oeuvre spans over seventy novels, poems, essays, children's books, and plays, primarily written in Nynorsk and translated into over fifty languages. Read more →