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Morning and Evening — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

By Jon Fosse
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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes's... Read More
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Morning and Evening — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A novel about the birth and death of Johannes the fisherman - a key work in 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's oeuvre. 

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A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed.

Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804271216

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Contributors:

  • Edited by Damion Searls
  • Edited by Damion Searls

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 64

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Fiction General Fiction Jon Fosse Literary Fiction

About the Author

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. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology.

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