Petterson, Per
Nordic Council's Literary Prize 2009
The Brage Prize 2000 & 2008
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
Critics' Prize 2003 & 2008
Booksellers' Prize 2003
Per Petterson (b 1952) worked for several years as an unskilled labourer, a bookseller, a writer and a translator until he made his literary debut in 1987 with the short story collection ASKE I MUNNEN, SAND I SKOA, which was widely acclaimed by critics. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prize-winning novel UT OG STJÆLE HESTER, which has been translated to 40 languages so far.
Click here for a brochure with sample translations and a presentation of Petterson's work.
"It has to be said, on the evidence of these few novels, that Per Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist"
- RICHARD FORD
"I was completely taken with Out Stealing Horses from the very first page. I found it powerful yet so quietly done I could hear myself breathe and I finished with an exhalation of awe"
- AMY TAN
Photographer:
Finn Ståle Felberg
