Peter Høeg





Peter Høeg

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born
in Copenhagen, Denmark
May 07, 1957

gender
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About this author

Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer, and actor. He published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams (1988), to positive reviews. However, it was Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992), a million-copy best seller, that earned Høeg immediate and international literary celebrity. His books have been published in more than thirty countries.


Average rating: 3.63 · 21,575 ratings · 1,680 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 16,421 ratings — published 1992 — 97 editions
Borderliners
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,452 ratings — published 1993 — 47 editions
The Quiet Girl
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 1,157 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions
The Woman and the Ape
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 1,011 ratings — published 1996 — 32 editions
The History Of Danish Dreams
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 1988 — 24 editions
Tales of the Night
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1990 — 29 editions
The Elephant Keepers' Children
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 2010 — 35 editions
Piccolo atlante celeste: Ra...
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009
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“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”
Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

“When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.”
Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

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