Jon Fosse
Vaim Hotel

Vaim Hotel is the second of three books about the fictional small town of Vaim, each with different characters.

It is a strange story about The Guest and a hotel owner named Brita. The Guest checks into the empty Vaim Hotel, where the commanding and powerful owner Brita holds sway in partnership with The Businessman. The Guest is tricked and lied to and goes from being a guest to working for Brita.

Fosse illuminates this mystery with a few mystical clues, and he pulls off a surprising and magical ending. It’s a delight.

Publishers Weekly

Are you ready for a refined dose of absurdist unease? Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse turns up the paranoia in his new, distinctly unsettling novel. […] What truly elevates the book is the wholly distinctive, pure resonance of its language.

VG

Fosse brilliantly shows us what we once knew and have since forgotten. In scenes of everyday life, he is irresistible.

NRK

Jon Fosse

Agnete Brun

Nobel Prize-winner Jon Fosse (b. 1959) is widely considered one of the most important writers of our time. For almost forty years, he has written novels, plays, poems, stories, essays, and children’s books. His award-winning work has been translated into more than fifty languages and his plays have been staged over a thousand times all over the world.

Jon Fosse grew up in Strandebarm, a small village in the western part of Norway, he now lives in the Grotten, an honorary residence in Oslo, as well as in Hainburg, Austria, and Frekhaug, Norway.

Fosse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023 and has received numerous prizes, both in Norway and internationally through the years.