{"id":569552,"date":"2023-10-06T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=569552"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:19:13","slug":"jon-fosse-septology-melancholy-english-translation-569552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/jon-fosse-septology-melancholy-english-translation-569552\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nobel Prize\u2013winning author Jon Fosse was found in translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Open Letter\u2019s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences\u2014and the importance of foreign translation presses today.<\/h2>\n<p>Norwegian author and playwright Jon Fosse, the recipient of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2023\/summary\/\">2023 Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>, published his first novel in 1983. By the mid-1990s, his literary star had firmly risen in Europe; yet it would take another decade for him to appear on the Anglophone horizon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Chad Post, then an editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalkeyarchive.com\/\">Dalkey Archive Press<\/a>\u2014which at the time published the majority of translated books in the United States\u2014first received a sample translation and the summary of Fosse\u2019s 1995 book <em>Melancholia I<\/em>, its original title. Today, Post oversees the editorial activities at Dalkey while also heading up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/\">Open Letter<\/a> Books, the nonprofit, literary translation press at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/\">University of Rochester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\"><span style=\"font-size: 400%;\">\u201c<\/span>Fosse\u2019s lyricism, his style, his focus on structure, and his heart is what makes him really an interesting and very cool writer to read.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take much to convince Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read the sample, loved it, brought it to the publisher, and we acquired the book,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI was really enamored with the writing style, the prose, and the mentality of the protagonist\u2019s mind that is dissolving over the course of the book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/melancholy-ii?_pos=4&amp;_sid=b36255d14&amp;_ss=r\"><em>Melancholy<\/em><\/a> became Fosse\u2019s first foray into the North American market\u2014and Dalkey, Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2019\/07\/01\/nordic-literature-in-translation-a-huge-data-dump\/\">notes proudly<\/a>, was the first press in the world <a href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/search?q=Jon+Fosse&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\">to publish the Norwegian author<\/a> in English.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the book was by no means a slam dunk. Sales were initially modest. But that, says Post, was in line with the press\u2019s long-term strategy of investing in quality authors who would slowly gather steam as their international reputations grew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, it\u2019s waiting for a Nobel Prize,\u201d says Post, not entirely joking. Incidentally, Fosse novels sold out in the US on Thursday within hours of the early-morning announcement from Stockholm.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569602\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-569602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-jon-fosse-nobel-prize-for-literature.jpg\" alt=\"Triptych cover art for three Jon Fosse books in translation: Melancholy II, Trilogy, and Boathouse.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-jon-fosse-nobel-prize-for-literature.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-jon-fosse-nobel-prize-for-literature-630x316.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-jon-fosse-nobel-prize-for-literature-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-jon-fosse-nobel-prize-for-literature-1536x771.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-jon-fosse-nobel-prize-for-literature-600x300.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Images courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the next 18 years, Dalkey went on to publish six more books by Fosse. Since 2008, Post has also been the publisher of Rochester\u2019s Open Letter, which is dedicated to increasing access to world literature for English readers. Open Letter is now one of only about a dozen or so US presses that publishes foreign works translated into English.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing about ten translated titles each year and running an online literary website called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/\">Three Percent<\/a>, Open Letter searches for works and authors that are \u201cextraordinary and influential\u201d\u2014works that the press hopes \u201cwill become the classics of tomorrow,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Open Letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/national-endowment-for-the-arts-grant-supports-open-letters-international-voices-project-507562\/\">received a grant<\/a> from the National Endowment for the Arts\u00a0last year to help fund its International Voices project, which will result in the translation and publication of five works of literature from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Fosse, of course, has become a shining example. On Thursday, he ascended the pinnacle of literary recognition for \u201chis innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2023\/fosse\/facts\/\">according to the Swedish Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s most widely performed playwrights, Fosse\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2023\/bio-bibliography\/\">immense oeuvre<\/a> written in Nynorsk (a literary form of Norwegian, based on country\u00a0dialects\u00a0and constructed in the 19th century as a national-language alternative to Danish) spans a variety of genres\u2014novels, poetry collections, children\u2019s books and translations, short stories, and essays.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Fosse has been translated into more than 50 languages and has won many of the world\u2019s prestigious literary prizes. Unsurprisingly, for the past decade, he\u2019d been considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2014\/mar\/12\/jon-fosse-writing-another-play-doesnt-give-me-pleasure\">a top contender<\/a> for the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Post, too, had anticipated Fosse\u2019s win for several years, describing his work as \u201cmore conservative in structure, centered on the humanism of the artist and the struggle to exist within an unjust or strange society,\u201d which, he says, fits more \u201cwith the Nobel vibe\u201d rather than being focused on the \u201ccurrent tropes of identity politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fitzcarraldoeditions.com\/books\/septology\"><em>Septology<\/em><\/a>, made up of seven novels in three books, published all in a single volume, is arguably Fosse\u2019s magnum opus. It tells the story of the aging painter Asle, a widower, who over the course of seven days tries to make sense of religion, identity, art, and family life, with strong autobiographical undercurrents, including a literary tribute to Fosse\u2019s late first wife and his own work as a painter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_569652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569652\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-569652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-chad-post-black-and-white.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of Chad Post in the left of the frame looking directy at the camera.\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-chad-post-black-and-white.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-chad-post-black-and-white-630x630.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/inline-chad-post-black-and-white-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-569652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Post, publisher at Open Letter, the University\u2019s nonprofit, literary translation press. (Photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To first-time Fosse readers, Post recommends starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/dalkeyarchive.store\/products\/trilogy?_pos=1&amp;_sid=bfc6f4386&amp;_ss=r\"><em>Trilogy<\/em><\/a>, which he says has a Samuel Beckett quality to it\u2014\u201cmoving, very striking, and well-paced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFosse\u2019s lyricism, his style, his focus on structure, and his heart is what makes him really an interesting and very cool writer to read,\u201d says Post.<\/p>\n<p>According to Post, more attention is paid to translated books today than a decade or two ago, yet the overall lack of focus on international writers across genres and countries persists, usually hovering around three percent of all titles published in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just too few,\u201d says Post.<\/p>\n<p>Why does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout access to other cultures and other ways of looking at literature and life, and the representation of what life is through this artistic medium, we become isolated,\u201d Post argues. It\u2019s not just readers who suffer\u2014American authors do, too, with fewer new influences and \u201cfewer new ways of thinking or doing things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The University of Rochester, meanwhile, has a more than 30-year tradition of connecting readers with less accessible books and authors. Beyond Open Letter\u2019s endeavors, Rochester houses the <a href=\"https:\/\/d.lib.rochester.edu\/teams\">Middle English Text Series<\/a>, a project that democratizes access to a wide range of medieval texts through free digital and affordable print editions.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, providing a platform for global voices is especially important at a time of interwoven politics and economies, argues Post. \u201cBeing able to hear individual voices from remote parts of the world that you may never be able to visit, or people you may never encounter, adds to our overall understanding of the world at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Letter\u2019s Chad Post on discovering the Norwegian author for English audiences\u2014and the importance of foreign translation presses 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