These Eyes

Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize

Original title: Desse auga
Publisher: Samlaget, 2009
Genre: Play

These Eyes is a snapshot of the dreamlike state of life. The characters exist in an in-between space which becomes their reality. A young man and a young woman meet by the seaside. The place where they have decided to build a life has a history, and it carries past lives. The home of an ancestor perhaps? Just as with the old, the young will one day disappear.

Foreign rights

French: L’Arche Editeur
Serbian: Udruženje Srebrno

Breathtakingly beautiful.

Anette Therese Pettersen, Dagsavisen.

A play that will be remembered for a long time.

Stein Roger Fossmo, Rogalands Avis.

One of the highlights of the year, this is great theatre.

Tarald Aano, Stavanger Aftenblad.

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.