PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway. Since his 1983 fiction debut,Raudt, svart[Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children's books and over forty plays. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'.
' 'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, author ofMy Struggle ' - ' 'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.' - Le Monde ' - ' 'Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his own.' -Nordic Council Literary Prize ' - ' 'It is some measure of Fosse's talents that he manages to weave such a compelling narrative from a largely static setting ... Nothing really happens and yet there is something quietly dramatic about Fosse's meandering and rhythmic prose, aided by Damion Searls's limber translation, which has a strangely mesmerising effect. ... [A]n intense reading experience.' - Lucy Popescu,Independent ' - ' 'Fosse carefully captures the contradictions...It is hard not to marvel at what peace and sorrow he fits into a single thought...' -George Berridge,TLS? ' - '' -
