Per Petterson
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born
July 18, 1952
place of birth
Oslo, Norway
about this author
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 (To Siberia — 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; it won the Brage Prize for 2000.
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 la...more
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson avg rating 3.81 — 4,357 ratings — published 2003 17 editions |
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To Siberia by Per Petterson avg rating 3.43 — 196 ratings — published 1998 8 editions |
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In the Wake: A Novel by Per Petterson avg rating 3.59 — 125 ratings — published 2000 7 editions |
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Jeg forbanner tidens elv by Per Petterson avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published 2008 |
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Pferde stehlen by Per Petterson, Ina Kronenberger avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2009 |
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings |
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Im Kielwasser by Per Petterson, Ina Kronenberger avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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Det er greit for meg: Roman by Per Petterson avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published 1992 |
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Ekkoland by Per Petterson avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1989 |
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Ich verfluche den Fluss der Zeit by Per Petterson, Ina Kronenberger avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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"...and we do decide for ourselves when it will hurt."
— Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses: A Novel)
— Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses: A Novel)
"People like it when you tell them things, in suitable portions, in a modest, intimate tone, and they think they know you, but they do not, they know _about_ you, for what they are let in on are facts, not feelings, not what your opinion is about anything at all, not how what has happened to you and how all the decisions you have made have turned you into who you are. What they do is they fill in with their own feelings and opinions and assumptions, and they compose a new life which has precious little to do with yours, and that lets you off the hook. No-one can touch you unless you yourself want them to."
— Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses: A Novel)
— Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses: A Novel)
"I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books."
— Per Petterson (In the Wake: A Novel)
— Per Petterson (In the Wake: A Novel)
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