Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse is considered one of our time’s most important authors and playwrights. 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. His writings have been staged over 1000 times across the world, which makes him one of the world’s most staged contemporary playwrights. In 2023, Jon Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the fourth Norwegian author ever.
Jon Fosse’s work has deep religious undertones, pondering life’s most fundamental questions about life, death and our relationship to God. There will be a range of events related to Jon Fosse during the book fair, such as a conversation on Jon Fosse and Sufism between the Egyptian literary researchers Saad El Qersh and Mansoura Ez Eldin, as well as Jon Fosse’s poetry set to music by the Egyptian jazz musician Mohamad Abouzekry.