Plays 1 - 5

Jon Fosse

Original title: Skuespill 1 - 5
Publisher: Det Norske Samlaget, 20016
Genre: Plays

Jon Fosse has written more than 30 plays in the last 20 years, performed in theatres all over the world. The plays have been published in 5 editions by Fosse’s Norwegian published Samlaget.

The plays are available individually or in compilations, and most plays have been translated into multiple languages, published in books, magazines, and through theatre productions.

For more information about publications, please contact Gina Winje in Winje Agency.
For more information about theatre productions, please contact Berit Gullberg at Colombine Theatre Agency in Sweden

Jon Fosse

Photo: Tom A. Kolstad

Jon Fosse is widely considered one of the world’s most important living writers. Born in 1959 in Strandebarm, a small village in the western part of Norway, he lives today in the Grotten, an honorary residence, as well as in Hainburg, Austria, and Frekhaug, Norway.

Fosse has received numerous prizes, both in Norway and internationally, and he is mentioned increasingly often as a likely contender for the Nobel Prize. He has currently finished a major seven-volume work of what he calls “slow prose”. Septology consists of three volumes: The Other Name: Septology I – II was published in 2019 to international praise and longlisted for the Booker International Prize. I Is Another: Septology III – V was published autumn 2020 and A New Name: Septology VI – VII in September 2021.