Yun Fosse is an outstanding contemporary Norwegian playwright, writer and poet, essayist and translator of fiction. Honorary Doctorate of the University of Bergen, has a bachelor's degree in philosophy and sociology and a doctorate in literary studies . His first novel Fosse published in 1983, the first collection of poems in 1986, the first play “Someone is about to come” wrote in 1992 To date, Fosse authored about 14 novels (the most important of which were “Melancholy I” (1995), “Melancholy II” (1996), “Morning and Evening” (2000), a series of novels “Trilogy” (2007-2015)), nine poetry collections and 37 plays. Fosse can be called a kind of "calling card" of the Norwegian theater abroad. The playwright is compared to the great Henrik Ibsen, and the number of plays staged around the world Yun Fosse broke all records. It was staged by such outstanding European directors as Thomas Ostermeier, Claude Régis, Falk Richter, Eirik Stb. On the Russian stage, the dramas of Fosse were staged by Vladimir Klimenko (Klim), Yuri Butusov, Farid Bikchantayev, Alexei Slyusarchuk, Alexander Ogarev, Joel Lehtonen, Kari Holtan .