NORWEGIAN AUTHOR JON FOSSE WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2023. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WRITER

Interviewing Jon Fosse in October 2023 was a great honour for the Norwegian Academic Environment at Babeș-Bolyai University, where students in the Norwegian Language and Literature Bachelor’s Programme study Jon Fosse’s work in the Literary translation and Short fiction courses. In 2018 the Department of Norwegian Language and Literature Studies in Cluj celebrated the PhD defence of a thesis entitled Jon Fosse and the New Theatre, by Anamaria Babiaș-Ciobanu, supervised by Professor Sanda Tomescu Baciu, founder of the Norwegian Language and Literature BA studies at Babeș-Bolyai University in 1991. As part of her PhD thesis, the candidate had the privilege to interview Jon Fosse and to publish the translation of the play Skuggar [Umbre, 2015] into Romanian, with the support of Norwegian Literature Abroad in the Nordica collection of Casa Cărții de Știință Publishing House.

JON FOSSE'S WRITINGS READ THROUGH NORWEGIAN AND ROMANIAN LENSES. A SURVEY

On the occasion of the recent Nobel Prize for Literature 2023, awarded to the Norwegian playwriter, novelist, essay writer and poet Jon Fosse, we invited scholars and translators from Norway and Romania to answer a series of questions related to Jons Fosse’s outstanding contribution to world literature. Many of the translators are at the same time active at academic level. The researchers and the translators were asked to address at least three of several questions. We invited the following contributors to participate in the survey: Professor Heming H. Gujord (Bergen University), Professor Unni Langås (Agder University), Professor Lisbeth P. Wærp and Professor Henning H. Wærp (The Artic University of Norway), Associate Professor and translator Zsofia Domsa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim), Associate Professor and translator Carmen Vioreanu (Bucharest University), Senior Lecturer and translator Daria Ioan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj), Assistant Professor and translator Ovio Olaru (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu) and Dr. Anamaria Babiaș-Ciobanu, translator. We are thankful to the respondents for participating in the survey