Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson (born July 18, 1952, in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian novelist known for his fiction exploring themes of family, loss, and memory; he worked as a librarian and bookseller before becoming a full-time writer. BookBrowse. His most notable works include Out Stealing Horses (2003), which won the International Dublin Literary Award (2007) and Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2006), In the Wake (2000, Brage Prize), and I Curse the River of Time (2008, Nordic Council Literature Prize 2009). Read more →