Dream of Autumn

Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize

Original title: Draum om hausten
Publisher: Samlaget, 1998
Genre: Play
Pages: 159 pages

Dream of Autumn is a love story and a family drama. In a seemingly serendipitous moment, a man and a woman meet in a graveyard. They knew one another in a past life, and perhaps carried a longing for each another. A whole new life unfolds after the encounter, with tense new scenes including the two of them. His ex-wife and his parents drive the narrative, with the presence of death giving contour to the love and life within the play. Dream of Autumn is a timeless poetic story about ‘the everyday’ and the miraculous.

Dream of Autumn had its premiere at the National Theatre in Oslo in the autumn of 1999. Since then, the play has been produced in more than 20 countries.

Foreign rights

Bosnia: Dobra Kniga
China: Yilin Press
Croatia: Fidipid
Czechia
France: L’Arche Editeur
Germany: Rowohlt
Hungary: Európa Kõnyvkiadó
India: Star
Kuwait: National Council Kuwait
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal: Campo das Letras
Romania: Editura Unitext
South Korea: Communication Books
Spain: DeConatus
Sweden: Faethon
UK: Oberon
Ukraine

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.