# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/per-petterson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:03.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/per-petterson"
name: "Per Petterson"
slug: "per-petterson"
description: "Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010."
tagline: "Norwegian novelist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump