A Shining WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023



A man starts driving without knowing where he is going.He alternates between turning right and left, and finallyhe gets stuck at the end ofa forest road. Soon it gets darkand starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help,he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably,the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, heencountersa glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange,haunting and dreamlike,A Shiningis the latest workof fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the Beckett of the twenty-firstcentury' (Le Monde).

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'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.'

- Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Wolves of Eternity

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'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.'

-Le Monde

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'Fosse has been compared to Ibsen and to Beckett, and it is easy to see his work as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more. For one thing, it has a fierce poetic simplicity.'

- New York Times

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'Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his own.'

- Nordic Council Literary Prize

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'A deeply moving experience. At times while reading thefirst two books of Septology, I walked around in a fugue-likestate, wondering what it was that I was reading, exactly. Aparable A gospel A novel bereft of the usual markings ofplot, time, and character The answer appeared to be all ofthe above, but although I usually balk at anything mystical,the effect was haunting and cumulative ... I hesitate tocompare the experience of reading these works to the act ofmeditation. But that is the closest I can come to describinghow something in the critical self is shed in the processof reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something moreprimal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of wordsmoving on a page.'

- Ruth Margalit,New York Review of Books

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Author Bio

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.A Shiningis his seventh work of fiction to appear with Fitzcarraldo Editions, afterScenes from a Childhood,The Other Name: Septology I-II,I is Another: Septology III-V,A New Name: Septology VI-VII,Aliss at the FireandMelancholy I-II.