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Peter Høeg


Born
in Copenhagen, Denmark
May 07, 1957

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery


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: 3.54 · 28,583 ratings · 2,898 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
Borderliners
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3.67 avg rating — 3,686 ratings — published 1993 — 26 editions
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The Elephant Keepers' Children
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3.44 avg rating — 3,078 ratings — published 2010 — 60 editions
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The Quiet Girl
3.23 avg rating — 2,847 ratings — published 2006 — 47 editions
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The Woman and the Ape
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3.34 avg rating — 2,574 ratings — published 1996 — 51 editions
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Effekten af Susan
3.35 avg rating — 1,691 ratings — published 2014 — 40 editions
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The History of Danish Dreams
3.51 avg rating — 1,288 ratings — published 1988 — 48 editions
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Tales of the Night
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3.82 avg rating — 983 ratings — published 1990 — 45 editions
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Sinun silmiesi kautta
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3.40 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 2018 — 15 editions
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Темная сторона Хюгге
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021
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Quotes by Peter Høeg  (?)
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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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