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A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The Nobel Lecture

Jon Fosse Damion Searls Chris Hall

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FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
23 July 2024
'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature.

When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With reverence and humility, Fosse traces his relationship to writing and celebrates the capacity of language to embrace the mystery, complexity and existential uncertainty of the human experience. 'It is only in the silence that you can hear God's voice,' he says, offering a key to his beloved works of drama and fiction. 'Maybe.'
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Imprint:   FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 125mm, 
ISBN:   9781804271230
ISBN 10:   1804271233
Pages:   40
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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’.

Reviews for A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

‘We are in the presence of rare literary greatness. It is for this greatness that the Swedish Academy has justly awarded Jon Fosse the Nobel prize.’ — Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement ‘Jon Fosse is a major European writer.’ — Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Wolves of Eternity ‘The Beckett of the twenty-first century.’ — Le Monde


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