Vaim, Jon Fosse’s first new work since receiving the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, will be published by Transit Books on October 7. The novel, translated by Damion Searls, is the first in a triptych set in the fictional Norwegian fishing village of Vaim which follows a cast of solitary fisherman, lost loves, animal companions, and boats, per the press. Transit has announced a print run of 20,000 for the hardcover edition.
Transit copublishers Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy acquired North American rights to the triptych in a four-book deal that also includes Fosse's Dog Stories, a collection of three novellas with canine protagonists, also previously unpublished in English. The deal was handled by Markus Hoffmann at Regal Hoffmann & Associates on behalf of the Winje Agency. Jacque Testard at Fitzcarraldo has acquired U.K. rights.
Transit previously published Fosse's International Booker Prize–shortlisted magnum opus Septology—a seven-novel sequence published over three books: The Other Name (2020), I Is Another (2021), and A New Name (2022)—as well as his 2023 novel A Shining and his Nobel Prize lecture. All were translated by Searls. A number of Fosse’s other books were previously published in the U.S. by Dalkey Archive Press.
