The Norwegian writer Jon Fosse is one of the most prominent names in contemporary drama. He was born in 1959 and lives in B ergen, Norway. He is an author, poet and playwright, with more than 30 plays to his credit. Since his debut in 1994, his plays have been staged more than nine hundred times across the world. Fosse has been translated into Albanian, Hebrew, Catalan, Farsi, Sami, Slovenian, Tibetan and more than 40 other languages. He has previously received a number of prizes and awards, including the Scandinavian National Theatre Award (2002), the Arts Council Norway Honorary Prize (200 3) and the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize (2007).
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