The Other Name

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes both in his native Norway and abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut Raudt svart [Red Black] Fosse has written prose poetry essays short stories children’s books and over forty plays with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. His most recent publication in English is Scenes from a Childhood a collection of short prose published in November 2018 by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Damion Searls is a translator from German Norwegian French and Dutch and a writer in English. He has translated many classic modern writers including Proust Rilke Nietzsche Walser Ingeborg Bachmann Alfred Döblin Jon Fosse Elfriede Jelinek and Nescio.|LONG-AWAITED LITERARY TOUR DE FORCE FROM ONE OF NORWAY’S MOST CELEBRATED WRITERS: Jon Fosse is often posited as a contender for the Nobel prize for literature. His magnum opus Septology – a seven-part cycle of novels that will be published as a trilogy – is an elegiac meditation on our unlived lives.<br><br>INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: The first part Septology I-II will be published simultaneously in Norway the UK Germany Denmark France and the Netherlands in October 2019 a few months ahead of the US publication.|• Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Possible excerpt in LitHub|‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’ <br>— Karl Ove Knausgaard author of <i> My Struggle</i>|An elegiac meditation on our unlived lives from the author of <i>Scenes from a Childhood</i>.