Some consider Fosse's magnum opus in prose to be Septology, which he completed in 2021: Det andre namnet (2019 The Other Name, 2020), 'Eg er ein annan (2020 'I is Another, 2020), and Eit nytt namn (2021 A New Name, 2021). For his plays, he has been regarded as the most performed Norwegian playwright after Henrik Ibsen.
developed his dramatic ingenuity through the influences of Vesaas, Beckett, Bernhard and Trakl. His immense bibliography spans a variety of genres such as plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children's literature and translations.įosse's breakthrough plays Namnet (1995 The Name, 2002), Natta syng sine songar (1998 Nightsongs, 2002), Draum om hausten (1999 Dream of Autumn, 2004), and Dødsvariasjonar (2002 Death Variations, 2004) explore the existential themes of human emotion, paradox, experience of divinity, and vulnerability in a harrowing yet innovative way with language and modernist artistic techniques.
Jon Fosse was born in 1959 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway.
