Episode 65: Jon Fosse, with Damion Searls

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

Jon Fosse is the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and for this week’s episode we are joined by Fosse’s translator Damion Searls to discuss Fosse’s work and the art of translation.

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Shownotes

Books

* The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, by Damion Searls

* A Shining, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls

* Sundays in August, by Patrick Modiano, translated by Damion Searls

* Dora Bruder, by Patrick Modiano, translated by Joanna Kilmartin

* Bambi, by Felix Salten, translated by Damion Searls

* Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories, translated by Damion Searls

* My Men, by Victoria Kielland, translated by Damion Searls

* Amsterdam Stories, by Nescio, translated by Damion Searls

* Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translate by May-Brit Akerholt

* Breaking and Entering, by Don Gillmor

* Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen

* Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin

* Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

* Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin

* 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen

* Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Melancholy I-II, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls and Grethe Kvernes

* Morning and Evening, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Scenes from a Childhood, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

* Aliss at the Fire, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls

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