AWARDS:

John Fosse has been awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (the Booker of Scandinavia) and the Norwegian Ibsen Prize, among others:

1998 Nynorsk Literature Prize 1997 Aschehoug Prize

1999 Dobloug Prize 2003 Norsk kulturråds ærespris

2003 Nynorsk Literature Prize 2003 Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France (2003)

2005 Brage Prize 2005 Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav

2007 The Swedish Academy Nordic Prize

2007 The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs' Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

2010 The Ibsen Award 2014 European Prize for Literature

2015 Nordic Council's Literature Prize.