The Fiddler Girl

In collaboration with Øyvind Torseter (ill.)

Jon Fosse The Nobel Prize

Original title: Spelejenta
Publisher: Samlaget, 2009
Genre: Children
Pages: 41 pages

Jon Fosse’s most recent children’s book is a fairytale about a clairvoyant fiddler girl. She sees that her father has been stranded on an island, and embarks on a journey with her fiddle to find and comfort him. She encounters many challenges along the way – where her trusty fiddle becomes an invaluable companion.

A magical children’s book for young and old with stunning illustrations by Øyvind Torseter.

Foreign rights

Brazilian Portuguese: Companhia das Letras
Danish: Straarup
Italian: Iperborea
Polish: Wydawnictwo Widnokrąg
South Saami: Gïelem nastedh
Vietnamese: Thời Độ

“If the eyes of a dice should speak of artistic quality and ambition, this certainly deserves a seven.”

May Grethe Lerum, VG

“Reading the text is like hearing my grandfather narrate fairytales… [the illustrations] take my breath away.”

Kristine Isaksen, Bergens Tidende

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.