Scenes From a Childhood — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

One of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist & unsettling quality of his writing. Scenes from a Childhood draws together a number of Fosse's most powerful short pieces, spanning his entire career. In the title work, we are presented with a loosely autobiographical narrative strand made up of multiple shards of memory covering infancy to awkward adolescence. The collection also contains Fosse's haunting & dream-like novella And Then My Dog Will Come Back for Me, along with his first published story, `Him', written in 1981.Taken from various sources, this will be the first time that these pieces appear alongside each other in the same collection, offering readers the chance to discover the best of Fosse's inimitable spare & poetic prose.Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway & is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway & abroad. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Raudt, svart [Red, Black], Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, & over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed & translations into fifty languages. The Other Name is the first volume in Septology, his latest prose work, to be published in three volumes by Fitzcarraldo Editions.Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French, & Dutch & a writer in English. He has translated four books & a libretto by Jon Fosse – Melancholy (co-translated with Grethe Kvernes),Aliss at the Fire, Morning & Evening (novel & libretto), &Scenes from a Childhood – & books by many other classic modern writers. "Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in the imagination. In 'And Then My Dog Will Come Back To Me', a haunting and dream-like novella, a dispute between neighbours escalates to an inexorable climax. Taken from various sources, the texts gathered here together for the first time demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of Fosse's imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works. 'Jon Fosse is a major European writer. He takes some effort, but that is only a sign of quality if you ask me.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle."-- Provided by publisher One of Norway’s most celebrated authors and playwrights, Jon Fosse is famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. Scenes from a Childhood draws together a number of Fosse’s most powerful short pieces, spanning his entire career. In the title work, we are presented with a loosely autobiographical narrative strand made up of multiple shards of memory covering infancy to awkward adolescence. The collection also contains Fosse’s haunting and dream-like novella And Then My Dog Will Come Back for Me, along with his first published story, `Him’, written in 1981. Taken from various sources, this will be the first time that these pieces appear alongside each other in the same collection, offering readers the chance to discover the best of Fosse’s inimitable spare and poetic prose.