Philip Hensher

Why did Jon Fosse win the Nobel Prize for literature? It’s baffling.

Mystic visions are buried in numbingly tedious scenarios, making the Norwegian writer’s ‘experimental’ works appear exhaustingly jejune

[Alamy/Staffan Lowstedt/SvD/TT]
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