Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Literature | 2023 | Winner |
About This Book
A seven-part novel following Asle, an elderly Norwegian painter, as he reflects on his life, his art, his faith, and a mysterious counterpart who shares his name. Written in Fosse's characteristic style of repetitive, rhythmic, minimalist prose, Septology is his most ambitious work and widely considered his masterpiece.
About the Author
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 →
