Original title Kveldsvævd Language Norwegian Originally published 2014 Genre Novel | Country Norway Published in English September 2016 Published in english September 2016 | |
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Awards Nordic Council's Literature Prize of 2015 Novels Wakefulness, Justice Undone, The Unvanquished, Blood Promise, Windswept House: A Vatican N | ||
Weariness (Nynorsk: Kveldsvævd) is a 2014 novella by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse.
The story is set some hundred years ago. The protagonist is the elderly woman "Ales", who is the daughter of "Alida" from Fosse's earlier novellas Wakefulness and Olav's Dreams.
Awards
In 2015, Fosse was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the trilogy Wakefulness, Olav's Dreams and Kveldsvævd.
References
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