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Translated from the Norwegian. Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. More about this book >
Jon Fosse and Damion Searls at the 2022 National Book Awards Finalist Reading
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 40 plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into 50 languages. A New Name, the final volume in Septology, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.
(Photo credit: Tom A. Kolstad)
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