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Peter Høeg

Born

in Copenhagen, Denmark

May 07, 1957

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery

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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.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 55,656 ratings · 3,949 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg, Tiina Nunnally (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 40,884 ratings — published 1992 — 153 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borderliners by Peter Høeg, Barbara Haveland (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 3,279 ratings — published 1993 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quiet Girl 3.23 avg rating — 2,579 ratings — published 2006 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg, Martin Aitken (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 2,750 ratings — published 2010 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman and the Ape by Peter Høeg, Barbara Haveland (Translator) 3.36 avg rating — 2,310 ratings — published 1996 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Danish Dreams 3.52 avg rating — 1,183 ratings — published 1988 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Night by Peter Høeg, Barbara Haveland 3.86 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1990 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Effekten af Susan 3.33 avg rating — 1,377 ratings — published 2014 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sinun silmiesi kautta by Peter Høeg, Sanna Manninen (Translator) 3.51 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Piccolo atlante celeste: Racconti di astronomia by Galileo Galilei, Ray Bradbury, Guido Ceronetti 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

tags: loss, lost, recapture, understand

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“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

tags: lack, longing, mathematics, missing, negative-numbers

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“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

tags: smilla-s-sense-of-snow

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The Great Gatsby af F. Scott Fitzgerald

6 votes 17.6%

American Psycho af Bret Easton Ellis

5 votes 14.7%

Lord of the Flies af William Golding

4 votes 11.8%

The Princess Bride af William Goldman

4 votes 11.8%

Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game afOrson Scott Card

4 votes 11.8%

Delirium (Delirium, #1) by Lauren Oliver

Delirium af Lauren Oliver

2 votes 5.9%

Of Mice and Men af John Steinbeck

2 votes 5.9%

Ham der søger Døden af Bent Haller

2 votes 5.9%

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

The Shawshank Redemption af Stephen King

1 vote 2.9%

The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) by Ken Follett

The Pillars of the Earth af Ken Follett

1 vote 2.9%

De måske egnede af Peter Høeg

1 vote 2.9%

The Satanic Verses af Salman Rushdie

1 vote 2.9%

The Blind Side Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game af Michael Lewis

1 vote 2.9%

The Diamond Age af Neal Stephenson

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