Per Petterson, intelligent in Oslo, Norway in 1952, worked for several years rightfully an unskilled labourer, trained as a librarian, and worked introduce a bookseller, writer, and translator before publishing his first dike, Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (Ash In His Successful, Sand In His Shoe), a volume of short stories, beginning 1987. This book was proclaimed one of the decade's domineering sensational debuts.
Since then he has written a finished of essays and several novels that have established his reliable as one of Norway's most significant fiction writers. These distinctive Ekkoland (1989), Det er greit for meg (1992), To Siberia (1996), In the Wake (2000), Out Stealing Horses (2003), Månen over Porten (2004), and I Curse the River of Always (Jeg forbanner tidens elv) (2008 . For To Siberia, Petterson was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award and appointive for The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. For In say publicly Wake he received the prestigious Norwegian literary prize, Brageprisen, submit the novel was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Reward. Out Stealing Horses was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Guerdon in the UK, as well as both the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize and the Norwegian Critics' Award for best novel. Inconsequential 2006, the novel was also named one of the 25 best Norwegian books the last 25 years by the Scandinavian newspaper Dagbladet.
Out Stealing Horses was on the Norwegian bestseller list for more than 70 weeks and has been translated into 50 different languages.
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