Per Petterson
Norwegian novelist whose Out Stealing Horses, translated into dozens of languages, became an international phenomenon. His spare, melancholic fiction explores memory and loss in the Norwegian landscape. He is Norway's most internationally celebrated contemporary novelist.
Works
- Out Stealing HorsesMeditation on friendship, memory, and mortality in rural Norwegian landscape
- To SiberiaSpare prose journey following memory and grief through Siberian landscapes
- In the WakeNorwegian man introspects on love and loss during solitary island retreat
- I Curse the River of TimeMan reckons with aging and regret as his past resurfaces in Norwegian village
- Men in My SituationMiddle-aged man confronts his stagnation and estrangement from family