Something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.
Ruth Margalit, New York Review of Books
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 ofThe Wolves of Eternity
The Beckett of the twenty-first century.
Le Monde
He touches you so deeply when you read him, and when you have read one work you have to continue.... What is special with him is the closeness in his writing. It touches on the deepest feelings that you have anxieties, insecurities, questions of life and death such things that every human being actually confronts from the very beginning. In that sense I think he reaches very far and there is a sort of a universal impact of everything that he writes. And it doesnt matter if it is drama, poetry or prose it has the same kind of appeal to this basic humanness.
Anders Olsson, Nobel committee
