"Jon Fosse is a major European writer."
–Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of My Struggle "Jon Fosse has managed, like few others, to carve out a literary form of his own." –Nordic Council Literary Prize
"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 doesn't matter if it is drama, poetry or prose - it has the same kind of appeal to this basic humanness." –Anders Olsson, Nobel committee
