Per Petterson
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Per Petterson (born 18 July 1952, Oslo), is a prize-winning Norwegian novelist.
Petterson's debut was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published five novels to good reviews. Til Sibir (1996) was nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
To Siberia, a novel set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998. His novel 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.
His breakthrough, however, was Ut og stjæle hester (2003) which was awarded two top literary prizes in Norway - the The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers’ Best Book of the Year Award. The 2005 English language translation (Out Stealing Horses) was awarded the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Petterson is a trained librarian. He has worked as a bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. He cites Knut Hamsun and Raymond Carver among his influences [1].
[edit] Bibliography
- 1987 – Aske i munnen, sand i skoa
- 1989 – Ekkoland
- 1992 – Det er greit for meg
- 1996 – Til Sibir (To Siberia)
- 2000 – I kjølvannet (In the Wake)
- 2003 – Ut og stjæle hester (Out Stealing Horses)
- 2004 – Månen over porten
