Best European Fiction 2016

Edited by Nathaniel Davis
Preface by Jon Fosse
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Best European Fiction 2016

Edited by Nathaniel Davis
Preface by Jon Fosse
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320 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Dec 07, 2015
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 320
  • Publisher: Deep Vellum
  • ISBN: 9781628971149
  • Dimensions: 6.0" W x 1.0" L x 9.0" H

Called the new Ibsen in the German press, and heralded throughout Western Europe, Jon Fosse is one of contemporary Norwegian literature's most important writers. His oeuvre of plays, novels, poems, and children's books have been translated into more than fifty languages, and he is among the most-performed contemporary playwrights. In 2023, Fosse won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable."

"[W]e can be thankful to have so many talented new voices to discover." — Library Journal

"Take their word for it, then: it’s literature. For sure it’s European, and it’s of much interest to literary readers and writers on this side of the pond." — Kirkus Reviews

“The anthology Best European Fiction 2016 combines 29 different writers from across the continent, here translated into English. Concerned largely with politics or literature, the standout story is Veronika Simoniti’s pertinent "A House of Paper," in which a translator is convinced her body is shrinking as some sort of penance for her lifetime of ‘counterfeiting […] in another language.’” — Ruth Gilligan, The Irish Independent

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