Original title: Sov du vesle barnet mitt
Publisher: Samlaget, 2000
Genre: Play
In Sleep My Baby Sleep, three people are in a strange unnamed place; through visual and linguistic association, they try to decipher their predicament. As is common in Fosse’s plays, the characters don’t have names; in this play, it emphasises the mystical character of their dilemma.
UK: Oberon
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.
