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Per Petterson

Biography

Per Petterson

Per Petterson's I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME won the 2009 Nordic Council Literature Prize, the 2008 Norwegian Book Critics Prize, and the 2008 Brage Prize, and has become an international best seller. His novel OUT STEALING HORSES has been translated into more than forty languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest international prize for a work of fiction written in any language and published in English. OUT STEALING HORSES was also named a Best Book of 2007 by the New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and many other publications. Petterson is the author of six novels, including IN THE WAKE and TO SIBERIA. He was born in Oslo to a working-class family and lives in Norway.

Per Petterson