Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright who was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1959, he has written more than seventy novels, poems, children's books, essays and plays, and he is the most performed Norwegian playwright after Henrik Ibsen. Among his books are Septology, I Is Another, A New Name, A Shining, Morning and Evening, and Aliss at the Fire. His plays are often placed within postdramatic theatre.