by Jon Fosse
About the Authors
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, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages. I is Another is the second volume in Septology, his latest prose work, to be published in three volumes by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Damion Searls is an award-winning translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch and a writer in English. He has translated five books and a libretto by Jon Fosse – Melancholy (co-translated with Grethe Kvernes), Aliss at the Fire, Morning and Evening (novel and libretto), Scenes from a Childhood and The Other Name, the first volume of Septology, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize – and books by many other classic modern writers.
Copyright
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Copyright © Jon Fosse, 2020
Translation copyright © Damion Searls, 2020
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Originally published in Great Britain
by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2020
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ISBN 978–1910695–38–7
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The translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA