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Peter Hoeg

Peter Hoeg

Danishb. 1957Fiction

Danish author best known for Smilla's Sense of Snow, an international bestseller combining crime fiction with reflections on Danish-Greenlandic relations. The Woman and the Ape and The Quiet Girl are his other celebrated works.

Works

  • Smilla's Sense of SnowMystery thriller about a woman investigating the death of a Greenlandic boy in Copenhagen→
  • The Quiet Girl→
  • The Woman and the ApeNovel exploring a strange relationship between a primatologist and a captured ape→
  • BorderlinersNovel about marginalized students at an experimental boarding school facing investigation→
  • Tales of the Night→

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