{"id":643,"date":"2023-08-05T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/?page_id=643"},"modified":"2024-02-25T07:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T07:34:23","slug":"jon-fosse-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/jon-fosse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Fosse"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;166&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in 1959 in Strandebarm, in Haugesund, western Norway, Jon Fosse\u2019s remarkably prolific career began in 1983 with his first novel, <em>Red, Black<\/em>, and since then he has published numerous novels, stories, books of poetry, children\u2019s books, and essay collections. He began writing plays in 1993, with <em>Someone Is Going to Come<\/em>, and since then he has written almost thirty plays, including <em>A Summer\u2019s Day<\/em>, <em>Dream of Autumn<\/em>, <em>Death Variations<\/em>, <em>Sleep<\/em>, and <em>I Am the Wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the mid-nineties his plays have had unparalleled international success, being performed over a thousand times all over the world; his works have been translated into more than fifty languages. Today Fosse is one of the most performed living playwrights, but he has continued to write novels, stories, and poetry of exceptional quality. In 2015 he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for his work <em>Trilogy<\/em>, consisting of <em>Wakefulness<\/em>, <em>Olav\u2019s Dreams<\/em>, and <em>Weariness<\/em>. Fosse\u2019s earlier novels <em>Melancholy I and II<\/em>, <em>Morning and Evening<\/em>, and <em>Aliss at the Fire <\/em>have also received wide critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fosse received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, and has been awarded numerous prizes both in Norway and abroad. The three books that comprise his magnum opus, <em>Septology\u2014The Other Name<\/em>,<em> I is Another<\/em>, and<em> A New Name\u2014<\/em>are published by Transit Books.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;166&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Born in 1959 in Strandebarm, in Haugesund, western Norway, Jon Fosse\u2019s remarkably prolific career began in 1983 with his first novel, Red, Black, and since then he has published numerous novels, stories, books of poetry, children\u2019s books, and essay collections. He began writing plays in 1993, with Someone Is Going&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/jon-fosse-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-643","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readersexchange-rex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}