Original title: Gitarmannen
Publisher: Samlaget, 1997
Genre: Play
Pages: 39 pages
The Guitar Man is a poignant monologue in which a busker sings songs to an audience that is always passing him by and always on the move. As we see the world around him through his eyes, we learn about him and his life.
China: Yilin Press
Sweden: Faethon
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.
