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Per Petterson

Norwegian novelist · Norway · Writers · Born 1952 · age 74

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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.

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2016Aschehoug PrizeAwardDobloug PrizeAward2012Gyldendal PrizeAwardNorwegian Booksellers' PrizeAward2009Nordic Council Literature PrizeAward2008Brage Award for FictionAward2003NeshornprisenAwardNorwegian Booksellers' PrizeAward2000Brage Award for FictionAward1996October PrizeAward1993Nota Bene Book PrizeAwardSpråklig Samlings Literature PrizeAward1987SarpsborgprisenAward1952Born18 July 1952

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Aschehoug Prize2016
Dobloug Prize2016
Norwegian Booksellers' Prize2012
Gyldendal Prize2012
Nordic Council Literature Prize2009
Brage Award for Fiction2008
Norwegian Booksellers' Prize2003
Neshornprisen2003
Brage Award for Fiction2000
October Prize1996
Nota Bene Book Prize1993
Språklig Samlings Literature Prize1993
Sarpsborgprisen1987

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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.

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Norway
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
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Born 1952 · age 74

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