Jon Fosse did not believe in God. Now he prays every day.

Jon Fosse will never write literature about the “real” Bergen. In any case, he thinks that the city should have changed its name.

There is ketchup and mustard on the kitchen table in the stately wooden house in Slottsparken in Oslo. Jon Fosse has had hot dog for dinner.

– When I agreed to take over «Grotten», I said that I would never go to Litteraturhuset or Kunstnernes Hus straight down the street here. And I have managed to keep it, says Jon Fosse.