Per Petterson

Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist whose 1987 debut was a short story collection, Aske i munnen, sand i skoa. His novels include Out Stealing Horses, which won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2006 and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2007, and In the Wake, about a young man who loses his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster. I Curse the River of Time won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, and he has also written To Siberia, set during the Second World War.