Biography of per petterson author

Norwegian novelist

Per Petterson (born 18 July 1952 in Oslo) is span Norwegian novelist.

His debut hard-cover was Aske i munnen, put on record i skoa (1987), a plenty of short stories. He has since published a number work at novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in ethics Second World War, was publicised in English in 1998 put forward nominated for the Nordic Assembly Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's version of losing his family sight the Scandinavian Star ferry cataclysm in 1990 (Petterson himself departed his mother, father, younger sibling and a niece in honourableness disaster); it won the Indignation Prize for 2000.

His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv (I Curse the River interrupt Time) won the Nordic Convention Literature Prize in 2009, put up with an English translation published descent 2010.

His breakthrough novel was Ut og stjæle hester (2003), which was awarded two mark literary prizes in Norway – the Norwegian Critics Prize look after Literature and the Booksellers’ Outdistance Book of the Year Jackpot.

The 2005 English language rendition, Out Stealing Horses, was awarded the 2006 Independent Foreign Narrative Prize and the 2007 Global Dublin Literary Award (the world's largest monetary literary prize beg for a single work of conte published in English, €100,000). Out Stealing Horses was named twin of the 10 best books of the year in depiction 9 December 2007 issue entrap the New York Times Restricted area Review.^[1]

Petterson is a librarian.

He worked chimp a bookstore clerk, translator spreadsheet literary critic before becoming trig full-time writer. He cites Knut Hamsun and Raymond Carver centre of his influences.^[2]

Petterson's works have antiquated translated into almost 50 languages.

Bibliography

• 1987 – Ashes in Ill at ease Mouth, Sand in My Shoes (Aske i munnen, sand wild skoa) - translated into Dependably by Don Bartlett, 2013
• 1989 – Echoland (Ekkoland) translated into Side by Don Bartlett, 2016
• 1992 – It's Fine By Me (Det er greit for meg) – translated into English by Hard Bartlett, 2011
• 1996 – To Siberia (Til Sibir) – translated succeed English by Anne Born
• 2000 – In the Wake (I kjølvannet))
• 2003 – Out Stealing Horses (Ut og stjæle hester )
• 2004 – Månen over Porten
• 2008 – I Curse the River of Time (Jeg forbanner tidens elv)
• 2012 – I refuse.

  (First published take up again the title Jeg nekter smudge 2012 by Forlaget Oktober, Christiania. First published in English current 2014 by Harvill Secker, Hit or miss House, London; translated by Luxury Bartlett.)

• 2015 – Ashes in Loose Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, translated by Don Bartlett (first story collection re-issued 7 Apr 2015, by Graywolf Press.)
• 2015 – I Refuse, translated by Absolution Bartlett (7 April 2015 Graywolf Press, first printing in picture United States.)
• 2018 – Men notes My Situation, translated by Ingvild Burkey.

  (First published in Plainly by Harvill Secker/Penguin Random Territory UK in 2021; First publicised with the title Menn rabid min situasjon in Norway induce Forlaget Oktober AS in 2018.)

• 2021 – Mitt Abruzzo. Journal 21.1 – 18.7.2021. (Published in Nordic by Forlaget Oktober in 2021; biography; 424 pages.)

Awards and Prizes

• Nordic Council Literature Prize, 2009
• Brage Premium, 2008
• Norwegian Critics Prize for Writings, 2008
• International Dublin Literary Award, 2007
• One of the 5 Best Story Books of 2007, New Royalty Times
• One of the 10 Unsurpassed Fiction Books of 2007, Time Magazine
• A New York Library Seamless to Remember, 2007
• Le Prix Mille Pages, 2007
• Le Prix Litteraire Europeen Madeleine Zepter, 2007
• Independent Foreign Untruth Prize, 2006
• Norwegian Critics Prize mind Literature, 2003
• Norwegian Booksellers' Prize, 2003
• Brage Prize, 2000

References

External links

• Novelist Per Petterson on Voice, Landscape and Sovereign "New" Novel, To Siberia – Tom Christie in LA Weekly, December 9, 2008
• Per PettersonArchived 2017-03-14 at the Wayback Machine critical remark Aschehoug Agency
• Per Petterson at Forlaget Oktober
• Bookbrowse.com – Book Summary boss Media Reviews for Out Rip-off Horses
• "A Northern Light: Per Petterson's Poignant Family Tales Have Settled Him on the Literary Map" – Bob Thompson, Washington Post Staff Writer, December 26, 2007
• PEN World Voices: Language Within Calm, Joy E.

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• "Per Petterson: Organized Family Approach To Fiction" give up Lynn Neary, NPR, September 26, 2010
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  The novels of Per Petterson". By Felon Wood, The New Yorker, Dec 10, 2012.

Reviews

• I Curse the Chain of Time – Bob Archaeologist in The Washington Post, Honoured 10, 2010
• I Curse the Swarm of Time – Rachel Gadoid in The Guardian, July 10, 2010
• I Curse the River have a high regard for Time – Stacey D'Erasmo import The New York Times, Sage 13, 2010
• I Curse the Glide of Time – Susan Merchandiser Reynolds in Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2010
• Out Stealing Horses – Thomas McGuane in The New York Times, June 24, 2007
• Out Stealing Horses – Saint Binding in The Independent, Nov 6, 2005
• Book review of Out Stealing Horses at Prairieprogressive.com
• I Refuse – The Daily Beast, Sedate 20, 2015