Strong Wind

Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize

Original title: Sterk vind
Publisher: Det norske Samlaget, 2021
Genre: Play
Pages: 75 pages

After an almost decade-long break from playwriting, Jon Fosse is writing for the theatre again. Strong Wind is his first play after this long break. It is a dramatic poem, with the characters of The Man, The Woman, and The Young Man. They all live in the same a household, but which of them are together?

The Man comes home after a trip and The Woman has moved into a new house; they meet up there, and a young man appears. He too has a relationship with the woman and seems to live in the house as well.

Strong Wind is a play about time, love, jealousy, fear of heights, and the urge for death, almost as in a bad dream. It is unmistakably a Fosse play, but at the same time is new and different, more reflective, containing within it an almost twisted truth.

Foreign rights

France: L’Arche
Polish: Biuro Literackie
Portuguese: Artistas Unidos
Spanish: DeConatus

Jon Fosse

Photo: Agnete Brun

Nobel Prize-winner Jon Fosse (b. 1959), is widely considered one of the most important writers of our time. For almost forty years, he has written novels, plays, poems, stories, essays, and children’s books. His award-winning work has been translated into more than fifty languages and his plays have been staged over a thousand times all over the world.

Jon Fosse grew up in Strandebarm, a small village in the western part of Norway, he now lives in the Grotten, an honorary residence in Oslo, as well as in Hainburg, Austria, and Frekhaug, Norway.

Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023 and has received numerous prizes, both in Norway and internationally through the years.