Jon Fosse came close to death as a 7-year-old.  “I miraculously survived, I almost bled to death”

Jon Fosse came close to death as a 7-year-old. “I miraculously survived, I almost bled to death”

The Norwegian writer and playwright won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The author of “Septologia” joined the group of the most outstanding writers. What was his path to the top?

On October 5, we announced the winner. It is Jon Fosse from Norway, who has been on the list of candidates for the award for years. – For innovative plays and prose that give expression to the unspeakable – Mats Malm, secretary of the Nobel Academy, justifying the decision.

Although he was an atheist, his prose has a spiritual dimension. “I became a deeply religious person”

He was born in Haugesung in 1959, but his prose debut took place quite late, at the age of 34. His prose draws from everyday life, but is not autobiographical. In an interview for “” the author admits that writing books has a spiritual dimension for him. Although he was an atheist in the past, as an adult he began to believe in God. – I haven’t converted at all. I became a deeply religious person. It came with time, with experience. (…) My turn to the Roman Catholic religion is therefore the result of a very conscious process, a result of maturing and searching for meaning, he said.

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He survived an accident when he was seven. “I came close to death”

In an interview, he admitted that an accident he experienced as a seven-year-old had a great impact on his work. – I miraculously survived, I almost bled to death. (…) I was going to the hospital with my mother and father, and despite the uncertainty whether I would make it out alive, I felt a blissful peace. I came close to death, I already knew that I was not indestructible, but something gave me a chance – he said, adding that it was at that moment that an artist was born in him. – I was unable to agree to it, and to this day I am convinced that the miraculous rescue of seven-year-old Jon cannot be explained solely by medicine – he explained.

Source: Gazeta

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