Our book club welcomes people from all round the world for a discussion about a work of fiction which has recently been translated into English. We meet on Zoom on the third Tuesday of each month during Trinity's term time. Admission is free, and participants may join as and when it suits. This month, we will be discussing:

Morning and Evening

by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls. 

[From the book's cover:] A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes’s father’s thoughts as his wife goes into labour, and ending with Johannes’s own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 and has been the recipient of many prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’.

Damion Searls is a translator from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch, and a writer in English. He has translated nine books by Jon Fosse, including the three books of Septology, as well as the work of many other writers. 

‘Damion Searls’ translation is delicate and rhythmic. Fosse is a great novelist of our time, and if you haven’t already discovered him for yourself, this short, sublime novel may be the perfect opportunity.’ ― Rónán Hession, Irish Times

If you enjoy events about literary translation, take a look at what else we have planned at the Centre, here.