Wakefulness (novella)

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Wakefulness
File:AndvakeFosse.jpg
First edition
Author Jon Fosse
Original title Andvake
Translator May-Brit Akerholt
Country Norway
Language Norwegian
Genre novel
Published 2007
Publisher Samlaget
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 "Alida", 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

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