Per petterson biography
- Per Petterson (born 18 July 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian novelist.
- With the release of the English translation of his fifth novel, Out Stealing Horses, he became an internationally bestselling author.
- Per Petterson, born in Oslo, Norway in 1952, worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, trained as a librarian, and worked as a.
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Out Stealing HorsesPer Petterson
Out Stealing Horses (originally titled “Ut og stjæle hester”) is a novel written by Per Petterson in 2003. Originally written and published in Norwegian, it was translated into English in 2005 and published in the US in 2007. It follows the story...
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Per Petterson
Few Norwegian writers have had the kind of success abroad that Per Petterson has enjoyed: He has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize. His novel Out Stealing Horses made the bestseller lists in the New York Times and has been translated into more than 50 languages.
Literary prizes:
The Unified Language Prize 2019 & 1993
The Aschehoug Prize 2016
The Dobloug Prize 2016
The Gyldendal Prize 2012
The Booksellers’ Prize 2012 & 2003
Nordic Council’s Literary Prize 2009
The Critics’ Prize 2008 & 2003
The Brage Prize 2008 & 2000
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007
One of the 5 Best Fiction Books of 2007, New York Times
One of the 10 Best Fiction Books of 2007, Time Magazine
A New York Library Book to Remember 2007
Le Prix Mille Pages 2007
Le Prix Litteraire Europeen Madeleine Zepter 2007
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2006
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Per Petterson
Norwegian novelist
Per Petterson | |
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Per Petterson, winner of the 2009 Nordic Council Literature Prize | |
| Born | (1952-07-18) 18 July 1952 (age 72) Oslo, Norway |
| Occupation | Author, novelist |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Genre | Fiction |
Per Petterson (born 18 July 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 (Petterson himself lost his mother, father, younger brother and a niece in the disaster); it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv (I Curse the River of Time) won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.
His breakthrough novel was Ut og