Beautiful

Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize

Original title: Vakkert
Publisher: Samlaget, 2001
Genre: Play

Download product sheet (PDF)

In Beautiful, the past disrupts the present when a man and his family go back to his childhood valley. The man meets an old friend who used to play in a band with him and they renew their friendship. Their earlier rivalry is also revived. The woman starts to court the friend – the other Man. Their daughter falls in love with a local boy. Underneath the surface of a summer idyll is a mood of growing tensions and of things falling apart.

Foreign rights

Romania
UK: Oberon

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.

Read more

Other titles by Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse

A Red Butterfly’s Wings
2002

Jon Fosse

Christmas Tree Song
2009
Inside the Black Forest

Jon Fosse

Inside the Black Forest
2023
Scenes from a Childhood

Jon Fosse

Scenes from a Childhood
1994
Collected Essays

Jon Fosse

Collected Essays
2011
Nightsongs

Jon Fosse

Nightsongs
1998
Everyman

Jon Fosse

Everyman
2024
How it Was

Jon Fosse

How it Was
2020
Very, Very Slowly

Jon Fosse

Very, Very Slowly
1989
The Girl in the Sofa

Jon Fosse

The Girl in the Sofa
2003
Songs

Jon Fosse

Songs
2009

Jon Fosse

Telemakos
2004

Jon Fosse

Freedom
2005

Jon Fosse

Over There
2006
Shadows

Jon Fosse

Shadows
2007
Warm

Jon Fosse

Warm
2006
The Bottle Collector

Jon Fosse

The Bottle Collector
1991
Stone to Stone

Jon Fosse

Stone to Stone
2013
The Fiddler Girl

Jon Fosse

The Fiddler Girl
2009
Red, Black

Jon Fosse

Red, Black
1983
An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays

Jon Fosse

An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
2014
The Name

Jon Fosse

The Name
1995
Boathouse

Jon Fosse

Boathouse
1989
These Eyes

Jon Fosse

These Eyes
2009
Shorter Prose

Jon Fosse

Shorter Prose
2011
Little Sister

Jon Fosse

Little Sister
2000
The Other Name: Septology I - II

Jon Fosse

The Other Name: Septology I - II
2019
Girl in Yellow Raincoat

Jon Fosse

Girl in Yellow Raincoat
2010
Kant

Jon Fosse

Kant
1990
Living Rock

Jon Fosse

Living Rock
2015
Dog Stories

Jon Fosse

Dog Stories
1995, 1996, 1997
Death Variations

Jon Fosse

Death Variations
2002
I Am the Wind

Jon Fosse

I Am the Wind
2008
I Is Another: Septology III - V

Jon Fosse

I Is Another: Septology III - V
2020
Morning and Evening

Jon Fosse

Morning and Evening
2000
Collected Poems

Jon Fosse

Collected Poems
2001

Jon Fosse

Vaim
2025

Jon Fosse

Vaim Weekly
2027
Closed Guitar

Jon Fosse

Closed Guitar
1985
Someone Is Going to Come

Jon Fosse

Someone Is Going to Come
1996

Jon Fosse

The Child
1995

Jon Fosse

Winter
2000

Jon Fosse

The Guitar Man
1997

Jon Fosse

The Dead Dogs
2005

Jon Fosse

Suzannah
2004
Septology VI - VII: A New Name

Jon Fosse

Septology VI - VII: A New Name
2021
Dark and Wet

Jon Fosse

Dark and Wet
1994

Jon Fosse

Mother and Child
1996
Strong Wind

Jon Fosse

Strong Wind
2021

Jon Fosse

The Son
1996

Jon Fosse

A Summer’s Day
1998
Dream of Autumn

Jon Fosse

Dream of Autumn
1998

Jon Fosse

Meanwhile the Lights Go Down and Everything Becomes Black
1999

Jon Fosse

Visits
2000

Jon Fosse

Sleep My Baby Sleep
2000

Jon Fosse

Afternoon
2000

Jon Fosse

Sa ka la
2005

Jon Fosse

Lilla
2004

Jon Fosse

Sleep
2006
Rambuku

Jon Fosse

Rambuku
2007

Jon Fosse

Living Secretly
1999
A Shining

Jon Fosse

A Shining
2023

Jon Fosse

Sea
2014
Trilogy

Jon Fosse

Trilogy
2014
Melancholy I - II

Jon Fosse

Melancholy I - II
1995, 1996

Jon Fosse

Vaim Hotel
2026