Original title: Der borte
Publisher: Samlaget, 2006
Genre: Play
An elderly couple are making their way up towards a distant mountaintop they’ve always wanted to climb together. Now they do it for the first time. But is it also for the last time? And do they see the same images on their way to the top?
France: Théâtre National de Strasbourg
Serbia: Udruženje Srebrno
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.
