Wakefulness (novella)

Wakefulness
Author Jon Fosse
Original title Andvake
Translator May-Brit Akerholt
Country Norway
Language Norwegian
Genre novel
Published 2007
Published in English
September 2016
Awards Nordic Council's Literature Prize of 2015

Wakefulness (Norwegian: Andvake) is a 2007 novella by Norwegian writer Jon Fosse.

The story is set a few hundred years ago. The young couple, "Asle" and "Alvida", has come to the city of Bjørgvin, looking for a place to stay. She is expecting a child in a couple of days. Alida is an outcast, her own mother will not recognize her, and Asle is orphaned. Now they only have each other. A parallel can be drawn to the fate of Joseph and Mary in the Gospels.[1]

Awards

In 2015, Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the trilogy Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams and Weariness.[2][3]

References

  1. Straume, Anne Cathrine (15 August 2007). "Andvake". NRK. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  2. Zakariassen, Gaute (27 October 2015). "Nordisk råds litteraturpris til Jon Fosse". NRK. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  3. "2015 Jon Fosse, Norway: Andvake. Olavs draumar. Kveldsvævd". www.norden.org. The Nordic Council. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

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