Per Petterson is a Norwegian author who has recently won the prestigious IMPAC Dublin award for literature. At 100,000 Euro this is the largest prize in the world for a single work of literature. Petterson’s novel Out Stealing Horses (2003) is the work he is best known for.
“This melancholy tale follows a 67-year-old man who is forced to remember the traumatic events of his childhood. His life was changed forever in the summer of 1948, when he was only 15. Through his memories the novel brings that distant summer to life and explores how the recovered past disturbs the present.” – Guardian Unlimited (www.guardian.co.uk)
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