Leicester Mercury: Staggering amount of litter and debris cleared from busy Leicestershire road near Fosse Park
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Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."
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culture · Norwegian author and dramatist (born 1959) · playwright · poet · children's writer · translator · novelist · literary scholar · writer · essayist · also Jon Fosse, Fosse
Born 29 September 1959 · Q443868
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2026· 2 entries
Fosse's play Suzannah is scheduled for the Canadian premiere at Here For Now Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, directed by Peter Hinton-Davis, one of Canada's leading theatre directors and an Officer of the Order of Canada
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Vaim by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate performs a strange miracle
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – what happens when we die
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The Guardian: Norway launches Jon Fosse prize for literary translators
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The Guardian: Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – the Nobel laureate’s mystical account of where we begin and end
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (2024).
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2023· 11 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.
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The Guardian: Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics
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The Guardian: A Shining by Jon Fosse review – a spiritual journey
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The Guardian: Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’
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The Guardian: ‘An extraordinary ethereal force’: readers react to the work of Jon Fosse
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The Guardian: Where to start with: Jon Fosse
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The Guardian: Read the opening of Jon Fosse’s The Other Name
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The Guardian: Jon Fosse’s Nobel prize announces his overdue arrival on the global stage
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The Guardian: Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literature
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (2023).
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And had been tipped to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the last ten years
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Brage Award for Fiction (2021).
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse review – a momentous project begins
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Nordic Council Literature Prize (2015).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bergen (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded European Prize for Literature (2014).
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The Guardian: Jon Fosse: 'The idea of writing another play doesn't give me pleasure'
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Nobel literature prize: odds slashed on Jon Fosse following surge in bets
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Language Prize (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Fosse spends part of his time with his third wife, Anna (m. 2011), who is Slovak, in Hainburg an der Donau in Austria.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded International Ibsen Award (2010).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (2007).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Brage Prize honorary award (2005).
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Awarded Commander of the Order of St. Olav (2005).
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2003· 4 entries
Awarded Nynorsk Literature Prize (2003).
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Awarded Knight of the National Order of Merit (2003).
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Awarded Arts Council Norway Honorary Award (2003).
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Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Gyldendal Prize (1999).
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Awarded Dobloug Prize (1999).
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1998· 1 entry
Became the 2026 film Beloved directed by Erik Poppe
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Aschehoug Prize (1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Samlagsprisen (1994).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Sokneprest Alfred Andersson-Ryssts fond (1992).
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Awarded Nynorsk Literature Prize (1992).
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1989· 1 entry
Fosse published a novel and his first collection of essays
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1987· 1 entry
Again from the University of Bergen, and published his third novel, Blod
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1985· 1 entry
And a poetic cycle, Engel med vatn i augene (Angel with Water in Its Eyes) in 1986
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1983· 1 entry
And was influenced by the Nynorsk writer Tarjei Vesaas
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1959· 2 entries
Born 1959-09-29.
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In Haugesund, Norway, and grew up in Strandebarm
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1903· 1 entry
Knut Hamsun in 1920, and Sigrid Undset, who won it in 1928
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