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Jon Fosse was born 1959 in Haugesund on the Norwegian west coast. His immense œuvre written in Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognized for his prose. His debut novel Raudt, svart 1983, as rebellious as it was emotionally raw, broached the theme of suicide and, in many ways, set the tone for his later work.

Fosse’s European breakthrough as a dramatist came with Claude Régy’s 1999 Paris production of his play Nokon kjem til å komme (1996; Someone Is Going to Come, 2002). Even in this early piece, with its themes of fearful anticipation and crippling jealousy, Fosse’s singularity is fully evident. In his radical reduction of language and dramatic action, he expresses the most powerful human emotions of anxiety and powerlessness in the simplest everyday terms. It is through this ability to evoke man’s loss of orientation, and how this paradoxically can provide access to a deeper experience close to divinity, that he has come to be regarded as a major innovator in contemporary theatre.

In common with his great precursor in Nynorsk literature Tarjei Vesaas, Fosse combines strong local ties, both linguistic and geographic, with modernist artistic techniques. He includes in his Wahlverwandschaften such names as Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard and Georg Trakl. While Fosse shares the negative outlook of his predecessors, his particular gnostic vision cannot be said to result in a nihilistic contempt of the world. Indeed, there is great warmth and humour in his work, and a naïve vulnerability to his stark images of human experience.

In his second novel Stengd gitar (1985), Fosse presents us with a harrowing variation on one of his major themes, the critical moment of irresolution. A young mother leaves her flat to throw rubbish down the chute but locks herself out, with her baby still inside. Needing to go and seek help, she is unable to do so since she cannot abandon her child. While she finds herself, in Kafkaesque terms, ‘before the law’, the difference is clear: Fosse presents everyday situations that are instantly recognizable from our own lives. As with his first book, the novel is heavily pared down to a style that has come to be known as ‘Fosse minimalism’. At the same time, there is a sense of trepidation and a powerful ambivalence. This later comes to feature in his dramatic work, in which he is able to make use of pauses and interruptions to express this uncertainty – and moreover charge them with emotion. In his plays, we are confronted with words or acts that appear incomplete, a lack of resolution that continues to preoccupy our minds. The play Natta syng sine songar (1998; Nightsongs, 2002) represents a drawn-out yet unresolved quandary in which the woman’s impulse to go off with a new man is constantly opposed by a counter-impulse – a ‘yes’ qualified with the keyword ‘but’. The man she has abandoned ends up taking his own life, while her new beau disappears from sight. It is no doubt Fosse’s courage in opening himself up to the uncertainties and anxieties of everyday life that lies behind the extraordinary recognition he has received among the general public.

From the very beginning of the play Namnet from 1995 (The Name, 2002), we are presented with an emotionally charged everyday situation. A girl, young and pregnant, is waiting for the father of the unborn child, who has been delayed. The tension is immediately built up here due to this sense of uncertainty and its resulting fragmentary sentences. These disruptions moreover create a gulf between the girl’s longing for a new life with her child and her anxiety that she has been abandoned by the father.

Something similar occurs in the heart-rending work Dødsvariasjonar (2002; Death Variations, 2004), a one-act play about a girl who commits suicide, told backwards from the time of her death. It is written in short, interrupted locutions delivered by six nameless characters from different generations, both alive and dead. The piece ends with the daughter’s deeply moving speech, delivered from the other side of the grave, in which she expresses a fundamental uncertainty as to whether her decision to take her own life was the correct one.

In Skuggar (2007), Fosse stages a series of reunions during which the same simple phrases are repeated with an explicit ambiguity: ‘No, of course / That’s just what you say when you meet someone’. As a dramatist, Fosse generally respects unity of place while disrupting unity of time. In fact, the place where the nameless characters meet after many years is both unknown to them and rather disconcerting. This timeless setting of Fosse’s own creation provides an emblematic backdrop for his dramatic encounters. In his earlier play Draum om hausten (1999; Dream of Autumn, 2004), he presents us with a masterly representation of multi-layered time. The scene here is a cemetery where a man – coincidentally, it seems – meets a woman. In fact they have spent their lives together, a shared experience filled with love, false steps and unrealized dreams. Also in this piece, different time layers in which the demons of the past haunt the living are almost seamlessly intertwined.

A notable example of his early prose is the short novel Morgon og kveld from 2000 (Morning and Evening, 2015). Written in the midst of an intense period of dramatic output, it may well be his most hopeful work. One morning, the elderly protagonist Johannes’s perception of reality begins to dissolve in an uncanny fashion, and we understand that he is going to die. And yet, there is, both in this process and following his death, a tone of reconciliation – although questions that arise in the hinterland between life and death remain unresolved. Along with its pauses, interruptions and negations, such questions are profoundly characteristic of Fosse’s language. His 2004 novel Det er Ales (Aliss at the Fire, 2010), includes all of 200 questions in the space of only 70 pages.

A central prose work is Trilogien (Trilogy, 2016), consisting of Andvake (2007), Olavs Draumar (2012) and Kveldsvævd (2014). A cruel saga of love and violence with strong Biblical allusions, it is set in the barren coastal landscape where almost all of Fosse’s fiction takes place. For this highly dramatic and tautly crafted tale, Fosse was awarded the 2015 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Fosse’s magnum opus in prose, however, remains the late Septology 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). Extending to 1250 pages, the novel is written in the form of a monologue in which an elderly artist speaks to himself as another person. The work progresses seemingly endlessly and without sentence breaks, but is formally held together by repetitions, recurring themes and a fixed time span of seven days. Each of its parts opens with the same phrase and concludes with the same prayer to God.

The first section of the novel addresses the painting that Asle, the narrator, has been unable to complete but which is nevertheless dearest to him. This depicts two strokes, one purple and the other brown, in the form of a diagonal cross, the style therefore appearing abstract. It is as if this opening phrase draws together the different time layers of the work into a single infinite present. Asle’s painting becomes an icon, its emblem of a cross indicating the central theme of death.

There is moreover a dominant doppelgänger motif inscribed in the painted cross. In the opening section of the novel, we are allowed access to Asle’s thoughts as he wanders around the city attempting to rescue his friend and namesake Asle from dying in a snow drift. This other Asle appears as an unhappy, alcoholic version of the Christian artist of the same name, the former possible to interpret as the brown stroke in the painting and the latter as the purple, their fates crossed at the moment of death. The septology is moreover not only Asle’s attempt at reconciliation with his own fate, it is also an elegy through which he mourns the premature passing of his wife, as well as a Künstlerroman dealing with his rather less than successful career as an artist. Ultimately, he is unable to tear himself away from the painting: should he even paint over it in white?

While, in the short play Slik var det (2020), something similar occurs, this time the aging painter’s monologue is only around thirty pages long. This variation on a theme demonstrates Fosse’s consistency regardless of genre. The motif of the wanderer recurs in the play I svarte skogen inne (2023), where a man who has lost all ability to navigate, in a fit of delirium, drives his car into the darkness and disappears. Another variation on the same motif occurs in Kvitleik (2023; A Shining, 2023). Once again, it is the human condition that is Fosse’s central theme, irrespective of genre.

In Sterk vind (2021), referred to as ‘a dramatic poem’, Fosse’s increasing use of imagery and symbolism in his plays becomes apparent. From as far back as the 1986 publication of his first poetry collection Engel med vatn i augene, lyrical language has always served as a great resource in his writing. The recent edition of his collected poetry, Dikt i samling (2021), testifies to the important role poetry has played for him over the years in providing the basis for his elementary diction and sense of the limits of language. Interestingly, Fosse has, in recent years, added to his long list of translations into Nynorsk two modern, lyrical classics: Georg Trakl’s Sebastian i draum (2019) and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino-elegiar (2022).

Anders Olsson
Chairman of the Nobel Committee
The Swedish Academy

Bibliography – a selection

Works in Norwegian

Prose

Raudt, svart : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1983

Stengd gitar : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1985

Blod. Steinen er : forteljing. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1987

Frå telling via showing til writing : essays. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1989

Uendelig seint / medforfatter Alf-Kaare Berg. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1989

Naustet : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1989

Kant / illustratør Roj Friberg. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1990

Flaskesamlaren : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1991

Bly og vatn : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1992

Dyrehagen Hardanger. – Oslo : Samlaget 1993

To forteljingar. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1993

Vått og svart / illustratør Akin Düzakin. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1994

Prosa frå ein oppvekst : kortprosa. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1994

Melancholia I : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1995

Nei å nei : hundemanuskripta 1. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1995

Melancholia II : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1996

Du å du : hundemanuskripta 2. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1996

Fy å fy : hundemanuskripta 3. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1997

Eldre kortare prosa / illustratør Camilla Wærenskjold. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1998

Gnostiske essay. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1999

Morgon og kveld : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2000

Søster / illustratør Leong Vá. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2000

Det er Ales : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2004

Kant / illustratør Akin Duzakin. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2005

Andvake : forteljing. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2007

Spelejenta / illustratør Øyvind Torseter. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2009

Essay. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2011 [Innhold: Frå telling via showing til writing (1989) og
Gnostiske essay (1999)]

Kortare prosa. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2011 [Eldre kortare prosa (1998), To forteljingar (1993) og Prosa frå ein oppvekst (1994). I tillegg tre tekstar som ikkje har vore publisert i bok før.]

Olavs draumar : forteljing. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2012

Kveldsvævd : forteljing. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2014

Når ein engel går gjennom scenen og andre essay. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2014

Trilogien. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2014 [Innhold: Andvake ; Olavs draumar ; Kveldsvævd. 1. utg. henholdsvis 2007, 2012 og 2014]

Levande stein : kortare prosa og ei hymne. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2015

Hundemanuskripta. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2018 [Nei å nei, Du å du, Fy å fy]

Det andre namnet : roman. Septologien I–II. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2019

Eg er ein annan : roman. Septologien III–V. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2020

Eit nytt namn : roman. Septologien VI–VII. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2021

Septologien : roman. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2022

Kvitleik : forteljing. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2023

Plays

Og aldri skal vi skiljast : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1994

Namnet : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1995

Nokon kjem til å komme : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1996

Barnet ; Mor og barn ; Sonen : tre skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1997

Gitarmannen : monolog / utsendt som julehilsen fra forlaget. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1997

Natta syng sine songar ; Ein sommars dag : to skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1998

Draum om hausten : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1999

Teaterstykke 1. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1999. [Nokon kjem til å komme ; Og aldri skal vi skiljast ; Namnet ; Barnet ; Mor og barn ; Sonen ; Natta syng sine songar]

Besøk ; Vinter ; Ettermiddag : tre skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2000

Vakkert : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2001

Teaterstykke 2. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2001 [Ein sommars dag ; Draum om hausten ; Medan lyset går ned og alt blir svart ; Besøk ; Sov du vesle barnet mitt ; Vinter ; Ettermiddag]

Dødsvariasjonar : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2002

Jenta i sofaen : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2003

Lilla ; Suzannah : to skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2004

Teaterstykke 3. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2005 [Gitarmannen ; Dei døde hundane ; Sa ka la ; Vakkert ; Dødsvariasjoner ; Jenta i sofaen ; Lilla ; Suzannah]

Dei døde hundane ; Sa ka la : to skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2005

Svevn ; Varmt : to skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2006

Rambuku ; Skuggar : to skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2007

Eg er vinden : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2008

Desse auga : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2009

Teaterstykke 4. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2009 [Dei døde hundane ; Sa ka la ; Svevn ; Varmt ; Rambuku ; Skuggar ; Eg er vinden]

Jente i gul regnjakke : eit bilete. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2010

Kortare stykke. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2011

Hav : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2014

Tre librettoar. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2015 [Melancholia ; For seint ; Morgon og kveld]

Teaterstykke 5. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2016 [Jente i gul regnjakke ; Hav ; Desse auga ; Leve hemmeleg ; Ein raud sommarfugls vengjer ; Telemakos ; Fridom ; Der borte ; Juletresong ; Melancholia ; For seint ; Morgon og kveld]

Fem teaterstykke / innleiing ved Jon Fosse ; føreord ved Stina Ekblad. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2019 [Nokon kjem til å kome ; Namnet ; Draum om hausten ; Svevn ; Eg er vinden]

Slik var det : monolog. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2020

Sterk vind : eit scenisk dikt. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2021

I svarte skogen inne : skodespel. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2023

Poetry

Engel med vatn i augene. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1986

Hundens bevegelsar : dikt. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1990

Hund og engel : dikt. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1992

Dikt 1986–1992. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1995

Nye dikt 1991–1994. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1997

Dikt : 1986–2000 / etterord av Tom Egil Hverven. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2001

Auge i vind : dikt. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2003

Dikt i samling / etterord av Kristina Lugn ; diktregister. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2009

Songar. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2009

Stein til stein : 39 dikt og 1 salme. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2013

Poesiar : etter Henrik Wergeland : dikt. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2016

Ro mitt hav : dikt i utval ved Anne Marit Jacobsen. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2019

Dikt i samling. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2021

Other

Olav H. Hauges poetikk / ved Jon Fosse. Monografi. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1993

Poetisk modernisme / redaktør: Jon Fosse. Antologi. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1995

Bernhard, Thomas, Ritter, Dene, Voss / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 1997

Broch, Hermann, Frøken Zerline / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 1998

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, Angsten et sjela / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2000

Norén, Lars, November / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2000

Pinter, Harold, Kjøkkenheisen ; Landskap ; Stille ; Natt ; Ingenmannsland ; Av jord er du komen / oversetter: Jon Fosse, Bjørn Endreson og Einar Økland. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2001

Harrower, David, Knivar i høner / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2002

Bernhard, Thomas, Ved målet / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2003

Motton, Gregory, Den største diamanten i verda : skodespel/ oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2006

Kristof, Agota, Tvillingar / oversetter: Jon Fosse. Basert på romanen Le grand cahier. – Det Norske Teatret, 2007

Fosse, Jon, Døden i Teben / bygger på Kong Oidipus, Oidipus i Kolonos og Antigone av Sofokles. – Det Norske Teatret, 2007

Kane, Sarah, Psykose 4.48 / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2008

Euripides, Ifigenia i Aulis / medforfatter, oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Nationaltheatret, 2009

Kane, Sarah, Fedras Kjӕrleik / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2009

Marivaux, Pierre Carlet…, Kjӕrleiken overraskar igjen / medforfatter, oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2009

Racine, Jean, Andromake / medforfatter, oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2009

Bernhard, Thomas, Himmlers fødelsedag : før kvila / medforfatter, oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2012

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust / versjon ved Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2013

Soga om Fridtjov den frøkne / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2013

Büchner, Georg, Woyzeck / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2014

Fridtjov & Ingebjørg : soga om Fridtjov den frøkne / omsett og tillrettelagd for born av Jon Fosse ; illustrert av Oddvar Torsheim. – Leikanger : Skald, 2014

Stephens, Simon, Det merkelege som hende med hunden den natta / medforfatter Mark Haddon og Jon Fosse ; oversetter Jon Fosse. – Det Norske Teatret, 2014

Vilikovský, Pavel, Evig grønt er / oversetter: Anna Fosse, Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2014

Lysande mørker : ni songar / utgitt i forbindelse med Oslo domkirkes guttekors 30-årsjubileum 2015. – Oslo : Oslo domkirke, 2015

Nora : too late : opera i én akt / komponist: Du Wei ; librettist: Jon Fosse ; bygget over Henrik Ibsens Et dukkehjem. – Nordnorsk opera og symfoniorkester, 2015

Soga om Torstein Vikingsson / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2015

Handke, Peter, Dei vakre dagane i Aranjuez : ein sommardialog / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2016

Kafka, Franz, Forvandlinga og andre tekstar / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2016

Edda : den eldre Edda i ein scenisk versjon / ved Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2017

Handke, Peter, Stendig storm / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2017

Joyce, James, Dei døde / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2017

Beckett, Samuel, Fyrste kjærleik : og annan kortare prosa / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2018

Büchner, Georg, Lenz / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2018

Ibsen, Henrik, Peer Gynt : eit dramatisk dikt / til nynorsk ved Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2018

Trakl, Georg, Sebastian i draum / gjendikta av Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2019

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, Den vesle prinsen / oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2020

Kafka, Franz, Prosessen/ oversetter: Jon Fosse. – Leikanger : Skald, 2022

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Duino-elegiar / attdikta av Jon Fosse. – Oslo : Samlaget, 2022

World premieres

Og aldri skal vi skiljast / regi: Kai Johnsen. Den Nationale Scene, Bergen 25. februar 1994

Namnet. Den Nationale Scene, Bergen 27. mai 1995

Nokon kjem til å komme / regi: Otto Homlung. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 26. april 1996

Barnet / regi: Kai Johnsen. Nationaltheatret, Oslo 4. september 1996

Mor og barn ; Sonen. Nationaltheatret, Oslo 8. mars 1997

Natta syng sine songar / regi: Kai Johnsen. Rogaland Teater, Stavanger, 6. september 1997

Gitarrmannen, monolog, Teater Cinnober,Göteborg 1999

Ein sommars dag / regi: Gunnel Lindblom. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 9. januar 1999

Draum om hausten. Nationaltheatret, Oslo 8. september 1999

Medan lyset går ned og alt blir svart. Teater Ibsen, Skien 1999

Dors mon petit enfant. Théâtre de Folie Pensée, St. Brieuc, France, 2000

Besøk/ regi: Kai Johnsen. Den Nationale Scene, Bergen 2000

Vinter / regi: Marit Gronhaug. Rogaland Teater, Stavanger, 8. september 2000

Vakkert. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 28. mars 2001

Dødsvariasjonar. Nationaltheatret, Oslo 17. november 2001

Ettermiddag. Riksteatret, Sunndalsøra 20. februar 2002

The Girl on the Sofa. The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh on 12 August 2002

Nightsongs. The Royal Court Jerwood Theatre, London on 21 February 2002

Purple. The Royal Lyceum Youth Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 20 February 2003

Der er du : høyrespel. NRK radioteatret, 2004

Suzannah. NRK Fjernsynet, 2004

Dei døde hundane / regi: Fridtjov Såheim. Rogaland Teater, Stavanger 30. april 2004

Sa ka la. Aarhus Teater, Aarhus 2004

Svevn. Nationaltheatret, Amfiscenen under Samtidsfestivalen, Oslo 25. august 2005

Melancholia I, del 1 / forfatter: Morten Cranner. Nationaltheatret, Oslo 29. april 2005. Basert på versjonen av stykket som ble sendt i NRK radioteatret 18. april 2004

Rambuku/ regi: Kai Johnsen ; musikk: Henrik Hellstenius. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 2. februar 2006

Skuggar. Nationaltheatret under Festspillene i Bergen 30. mai 2006

Eg er vinden. Nationaltheatret under Festspillene i Bergen 24. mai 2007

Desse auga. Rogaland teater, Lundsneset 19. august 2008

Melancholia : en opera av Georg Friedrich Haas / libretto av Jon Fosse. Den Nye Opera, Bergen 2008

Ylajali / Etter Knut Hamsuns roman Sult. Rogaland teater, Stavanger 28. mars 2009

Ich bin der Wind. Deutsche Erstaaufführung. Stadttheater Konstanz 16. Oktober 2009

Dyrehagen Hardanger. Hordaland teater, Fana 6. mars 2012

Morgon og kveld. Norgespremiere: Nationaltheatret, Oslo 18. mars 2015

Morgen und Abend / Georg Friedrich Haas ; libretto by Jon Fosse. Opera performed at the Royal Opera House, London on 13 November 2015

Kant / komponist: Gunnar Edander ; medforfatter: Jon Fosse ; oversetter: Ingvild Marie Lien. Nordlands teaters Black Box 10. mars 2016

Morgen und Abend / Georg Friedrich Haas ; libretto von Jon Fosse. Deutsche Erstaufführing. Deutschen Oper Berlin am 29. April 2016

Edda konsept / regissert av Robert Wilson ; tekstar av Jon Fosse ; musikk av CocoRosie og Arvo Pärt. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 4. mars 2017

Det er Ales / ved Maria Sand. Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 28. januar 2017

Andvake : en triologi. Hordaland teater, Bergen 23. mai 2018

Leva hemmeleg.Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 8. september 2019

Slik var det. Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, 4. november 2020

Works in English

The Girl on the Sofa / in an English version by David Harrower ; from a literal translation by Neil Howard and Tonje Gotschalksen. – London : Oberon, 2002. – Translation of: Jenta i sofaen

Nightsongs / translated for the stage by playwright Gregory Motton. – London : Oberon, 2002. – Translation of: Natta syng sine songar

Plays One / translated by Gregory Motton and Louis Muinzer. – London : Oberon, 2002 [Includes Someone Is Going to Come, The Name, The Guitar Man, The Child]

Plays Two / translated by Louis Muinzer, Kim Dambaek and Ann Henning Jocelyn. – London : Oberon, 2004 [Includes A Summer’s Day, Dream of Autumn, and Winter]

Plays Three / translated by May-Brit Akerholt. – London : Oberon, 2004 [Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful, and Death Variations]

Plays Four / translated by Louis Muinzer and May-Brit Akerholt. – London : Oberon, 2006 [Includes And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Son, Visits, and Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black]

Melancholy I / translation by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls. – Rochester : Dalkey Archive Press, 2006. – Translation of: Melancholia I

Aliss at the Fire / translated by Damion Searls. – Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010. – Translation of: Det er Ales

Plays Five / translated by May-Brit Akerholt. – London : Oberon, 2011 [Includes Suzannah, Living Secretly, The Dead Dogs, A Red Butterfly’s Wing, Warm, Telemakos, and Sleep]

I am the Wind / English language version by Simon Stephens. – London : Oberon, 2011. – Translation of: Eg er vinden

Melancholy II / translated by Eric Dickens. – Champaigne : Dalkey Archive Press, 2014. – Translation of: Melancholia II

The Dead Dogs / translated by May-Brit Akerholt. – London : Oberon, 2014. – Translation of: Dei døde hundane

Plays Six / translated by May-Brit Akerholt, Neil Howard. – Oberon, 2014. [Includes Rambuku, Freedom, Over There, These Eyes, Girl in Yellow Raincoat, Christmas Tree Song, and Sea]

An Angel Walks Through the Stage : And Other Essays / translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt ; foreword by Cecilie N. Seiness. – Victoria : Dalkey Archive Press, 2015. – Translation of: Når ein engel går gjennom scenen og andre essay

Morning and Evening : A Novel / translated by Damion Searls. – Victoria : Dalkey Archive Press, 2015. – Translation of: Morgon og kveld

Trilogy / translated by May-Brit Akerholt. – Victoria : Dalkey Archive Press, 2016. – Translation of: Trilogien

Boathouse / translated by May-Brit Akerholt. – Victoria : Dalkey Archive Press, 2017. – Translation of: Naustet

Scenes from a Childhood / translated and selected by Damion Searls. – London : Fitzcarraldo, 2018 [Short stories. Selections]

The Other Name : Septology I–II / translated by Damion Searls. – London : Fitzcarraldo, 2020. – Translation of: Det andre namnet : roman. Septologien I-II

I is Another : Septology III–V / translated by Damion Searls. – London : Fitzcarraldo, 2020. – Translation of: Eg er ein annan : roman. Septologien III–V

A New Name : Septology VI–VII / translated by Damion Searls. – London : Fitzcarraldo, 2021. – Translation of: Eit nytt namn : roman. Septologien VI–VII

Septology / translated by Damion Searls. – London : Fitzcarraldo, 2022. – Translation of: Septologien

A Shining / translated by Damion Searls. – London : Fitzcarraldo, 2023. – Translation of: Kvitleik

Works in French

Melancholia I : roman / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : POL, 1998. – Traduction de: Melancholia

Le nom ; L’enfant / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 1998. – Traduction de: Namnet ; Barnet

Quelqu’un va venir ; Le fils / traduit de norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 1999. – Traduction de: Nokon kjem til å komme ; Sonen

Et jamais nous ne serons séparés ; Un jour en été ; Dors, mon petit enfant / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2000. – Traduction de: Og aldri skal vi skiljast ; Ein sommars dag ; Sov du vesle barnet mitt

Visites; Variations sur la mort / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2002. – Traduction de: Besøk ; Dødsvariasjonar

Melancholia II / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Belval : Circé, 2002. – Traduction de: Melancholia II

Le manuscrit des chiens. III. Quelle misère! / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2002. – Traduction de: Fy å fy

Matin et soir / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Belval : Circé, 2003. – Traduction de: Morgon og kveld

Et la nuit chante ; Hiver/ traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2003. – Traduction de: Natta syng sine sonar ; Vinter

Rêve d’automne ; Violet ; Vivre dans le secret / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2005. – Traduction de: Draum om hausten ; Lilla ; Leve hemmeleg

La remise à bateaux / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Belval : Circé, 2007. – Traduction de: Naustet

Kant ; Noir et humide ; Si lentement ; Petite Sœur / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2009. – Traduction de: Kant…

Insomnie / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Belval : Circé, 2009. – Traduction de: Andvake

Je suis le vent ; Les jours s’en vont / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2010. – Traduction de: Eg er vinden ; Svevn

Le manuscrit des chiens. II. Quelle merveille! / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2010. – Traduction de: Du å du

Le manuscrit des chiens. I. Quelle galère! / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2010. – Traduction de: Nei å nei

Ylajali/ texte français, Gabriel Dufay ; en collaboration avec Camilla Bouchet ; d’après le roman ”Faim” de Knut Hamsun. – Paris : L’Arche, 2012. – Traduction de: Ylajali

Les rêves d’Olav / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Belval : Circé, 2014. – Traduction de: Olavs draumar

Au tomber de la nuit / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Belval : Circé, 2016. – Traduction de: Kveldsvævd

Jeune fille sur un canapé ; Ces yeux / traduit du Marianne Ségol-Samoy. – Paris : L’Arche, 2020. – Traduction de: Jenta i sofaen ; Desse auga

Et la nuit chante ; Un jour un été ; Hiver ; Variations sur la mort / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2021. – Traduction de: Natta syng sine songar ; Ein sommars dag ; Vinter ; Dødsvariasjonar

Rêve d’automne ; Visites ; Dors mon petit enfant ; Et jamais nous de ne serons séparés / traduit du norvégien par Terje Sinding. – Paris : L’Arche, 2021. – Traduction de: Draum om hausten ; Besøk ; Sov du vesle barnet mitt ; Og aldrig skal vi skiljast

L’autre nom : Septologie I-II / traduit du norvégien par Jean-Baptiste Coursaud. – Paris : Christian Bourgois, 2021. – Traduction de: Det andre namnet

Works in German

Von Kötern, Kläffern und feinen Hundedamen / übersetzt von Dagmar Lendt. Mit Bildern von Susanne Janssen. – Hamburg : Carlsen, 1998

Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Zürich : Schauspielhaus, 2000

Melancholie : Roman / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Berlin : Kindler, 2001. – Originaltitel: Melancholia

Traum in Herbst und andere Stücke / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2001. Originaltitel: Draum om hausten

Morgen und Abend / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Berlin : Fest, 2002. – Originaltitel: Morgon og kveld

Das ist Alise : Novelle / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Hamburg : Marebuchverlag, 2003

Der Sohn : deutschsprachige Erstaufführung / Hrsg. von der Schauspiel Zürich AG. – Zürich : Schauspielhaus, 2003. – Originaltitel: Sonen

Schwester / mit Bildern von Aljoscha Blau ; übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Zürich : Bajazzo-Verl., 2006. – Originaltitel: Søster

Schlaflos: Erzählung/ übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2008. – Originaltitel: Andvake

Trilogie / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2016. – Originaltitel: Trilogien

Ich bin der Wind und andere Stücke / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2016 [Anthologie]

Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder und andere Stücke / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt, 2016 [insgesamt 3 Werke]

Denne uforklarlege stille = Diese unerklärliche Stille / Olav Christopher Jenssen, Radierungen ; übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Münster : Kleinheinrich, 2016

Der andere Name : Heptalogie I-II : Roman / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2019. – Originaltitel: Det andre namnet. Septologien I-II

Kindheitsszenen / Holzschnitten Olav Christopher Jenssen ; übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Münster : Josef Kleinheinrich, 2019

Starker Wind : ein szenisches Gedicht von Jon Fosse : deutschsprachige Erstaufführung / Kammerspiele ; Redaktion: John von Düffel.– Berlin : Deutsches Theater Berlin, 2021

Ich ist ein anderer : Heptalogie III-V : Roman / übersetzt von Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel. – Hamburg : Rowohlt, 2022. – Originaltitel: Eg er ein annan. Septologien III-V

Works in Swedish

Stängd gitarr : roman / översättning av Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1988. – Originaltitel: Stengd gitar

Båthuset : roman / översättning av Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1989. – Originaltitel: Naustet

Kant / illustrationer av Roj Friberg ; översättning av Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Carlsén/if, 1990. – Originaltitel: Kant

Flasksamlaren : roman / översättning av Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 1992. – Originaltitel: Flaskesamlaren

Någon kommer att komma : skådespel / översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Göteborg : Cinnober Teaterförening, 1998. – Originaltitel: Nokon kjem til å komme : skodespel

Melancholia / översättning av Urban Andersson. –Stockholm : Bonnier, 1999

Besök : skådespel / översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Helsingborg : Helsingborgs stadsteater, 2001. – Originaltitel: Besøk

Dröm om hösten / översättning av Claes Hylinger. – Stockholm : Kungliga Dramatiska teatern, 2002. – Originaltitel: Draum om hausten

Flickan i soffan / översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Stockholm : Stockholms stadsteater, 2002. – Originaltitel: Jenta i sofaen

Morgon och kväll : roman / översättning av Urban Andersson. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 2002. – Originaltitel: Morgon og kveld

Någon kommer att komma / översättning av Lars Norén. – Norsborg : Riksteatern, 2002. – Originaltitel: Nokon kjem til å komme : skodespel

Sonen / översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Borås : Borås Stadsteater, 2002. – Originaltitel: Sonen

Skådespel / översättningar av Svante Aulis Löwenborg, Claes Hylinger och Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Teatertidningen, 2003. – Originaltitlar: Namnet ; Sonen ; Natta syng sine songar ; Draum om hausten

Dödsvariationer / översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : Sveriges Radio, 2004. – Originaltitel: Dødsvariasjonar

Fedra / av Racine ; i version av Jon Fosse / översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Norsborg : Riksteatern, 2005. – Originaltitel: Phèdre

Natten sjunger sina sånger : skådespel / översättning av Steve Sem-Sandberg ; bearbetning av Nina E. Wester och Kjersti Horn. – Stockholm : Stockholms stadsteater, 2005. – Originaltitel: Natta syng sine songar

Där är du : hörspel / översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : Radioteatern, 2008. – Originaltitel: Der er du : høyrespel

Döden i Thebe / av Sofokles ; version av Jon Fosse ; översättning av Annika Silkeberg. – Stockholm : Kungliga Dramatiska teatern, 2009. – Originaltitel: Døden i Teben

Flicka i gul regnjacka : en bild / översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : Kungliga Dramatiska teatern, 2009. – Originaltitel: Jente i gul regnjakke

Det är Ales ; och Sömnlösa / översättning av Urban Andersson. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 2010. – Originaltitlar: Det er Ales ; Andvake

En sommardag / översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : Kungliga Dramatiska teatern, 2010. – Originaltitel: Ein sommars dag

Långsam musik : dikter / Jon Fosse i urval och översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : 10TAL Bok, 2010

Saxofonmannen : monolog / översättning av Svante Aulis Löwenborg ; bearbetning av Max Lundqvist. – Stockholm : Sveriges Radio, 2012. – Originaltitel: Gitarmannen : monolog

Vinter / översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Göteborg : Folkteatern, 2012. – Originaltitel: Vinter

Trilogin / översättning av Urban Andersson. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 2015 [Innehåll: Sömnlösa ; Olavs drömmar ; Kvällning]. – Originaltitel: Trilogien

Barnet : skådespel / översättning av Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 2015

Fyra pjäser / förord av Stina Ekblad : översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : 10TAL Bok, 2016. – Originaltitlar: Jente i gul regnjakke ; Dødsvariasjonar ; Eg er vinden ; Vinter

När en ängel går genom scenen : essäer / förord av Karl Ove Knausgård : översättning av Marie Lundquist. – Stockholm : 10TAL Bok, 2016. – Originaltitel: Når ein engel går gjennom scenen og andre essay

Hundmanuskripten / översättning av Christian Ekvall. – Lund : Bakhåll, 2019. – Originaltitel : Hundemanuskripta [Nei å nei ; Du å du, Fy å fy]

Ifigenia i Aulis / efter Euripides ; översättning: Marie Lundquist ; bearbetning: Nadja Weiss och Irena Kraus. – Stockholm : Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, 2019

Eddan / översättning av Lars Andersson. – Norsborg : Riksteatern, 2019. – Originaltitel: Edda

Teater I / förord av Leif Zern ; redaktörskap: Daniel Pedersen ; översättningar av Lars Norén, Steve Sem-Sandberg och Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Stockholm : Faethon, 2021

Teater II / efterskrift av Svante Aulis Löwenborg ; redaktörskap: Daniel Pedersen ; översättningar av Marie Lundquist, Svante Aulis Löwenborg och Steve Sem-Sandberg. – Stockholm : Faethon, 2021

Teater III / förord av Mikaela Blomqvist ; redaktörskap: Daniel Pedersen ; översättningar av Marie Lundquist och Svante Aulis Löwenborg. – Stockholm : Faethon, 2021

Det andra namnet : Septologin I–II / översättning av Lars Andersson. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 2021. – Originaltitel: Det andre namnet : roman. Septologien I–II

Jag är en annan : Septologin III–V / översättning av Lars Andersson. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 2022. – Originaltitel: Eg er ein annan : roman. Septologien III–V

Prosa 1 / översättning av Ragnar Strömberg. – Stockholm : Atlas, 2022

Prosa 2 / översättning av Ragnar Strömberg. – Stockholm : Atlas, 2022

Ett nytt namn : Septologin VI–VII / översättning av Lars Andersson. – Stockholm : Bonnier, 2023. – Originaltitel: Eit nytt namn : roman. Septologien VI–VII

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