Original title: Svevn
Publisher: Samlaget, 2006
Genre: Play
Could life have been different if you made other choices? This question is addressed in Sleep, where we meet ten people with different hopes and dreams. Their lives become interwoven in an apartment.
Brazilian Portuguese: Fósforo Editora
Chinese (simplified): Horizon Media
Serbian: Udruženje Srebrno
Swedish: Faethon
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.
