Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse was born in 1959 on the west coast of Norway and has written over thirty books and twenty-eight plays that have been translated into over 40 languages. His first novel, Red, Black, was published in 1983, and was followed by such works as Trilogy, Aliss at the Fire, and Morning and Evening. He is one of the world’s most produced living playwrights. Winning numerous prestigious international awards throughout this career, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023.

Kåre Conradi is an acclaimed actor and voiceover artist. Born in Asker outside of Oslo, he trained at LAMDA and The Norwegian Academy of Dramatic Arts. In addition to other stage performances, he has been employed as a regular member at The National Theatre of Norway since 1999, where he has performed in more than thirty productions. His TV and film credits include Boys Will Be Boys, Wide Blue Yonder, The Philanthropist, Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice, King Curling, and The Conqueror.

Damion Searls is a writer in English and translator from German, French, Dutch, and Norwegian. Searls has translated writers including Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Christa Wolf; his translation of Hans Keilson's "Comedy in a Minor Key" was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Fiction.