Jon Fosse, world-renowned playwright(446)
Jon Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.
In Sceneweb you will find a complete overview of all productions across the world based on his works, from the premiere of his play And We’ll Never be Parted in 1994 at The National Stage in Bergen, directed by Kai Johnsen. This documentation has been collected in collaboration with the Norwegian National Library, where you will find the world’s biggest collection of material about and by Jon Fosse.
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Jon Fosse is considered one of the most important writers of our time. He debuted as an author with the novel Red, Black (1983) and has since published several novels, poetry collections, children's books, essay collections and plays. He has also translated and recreated a range of classical works.
Jon Fosse wrote his first play, Someone Is Going To Come, in 1992. This was staged at The Norwegian Theatre in Oslo in 1996, directed by Otto Homlung. Since then, his works have been staged over 900 times across the world. This makes Jon Fosse one of the world’s most staged contemporary playwrights.
In 2011, Jon Fosse was granted residence in the Norwegian State’s honorary residence, Grotten, in Oslo. And in 2015 he was awarded Nordic Council’s Literature Prize for the novel series Trilogy.
In a research article published in 2023, Jens-Morten Hanssen from the Norwegian National Library used data from Sceneweb, among other sources, to explore the factors that have been most important for Fosse's international success.
Read the article here (in Norwegian only).
In this gallery, you will find all audiovisual material currently available in the Sceneweb database connected to Jon Fosse and his staged works. There will be more material coming as and when we add to the collection.
If you want an overview of all productions connected to Jon Fosse, please have a look here.