modern europe
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.— Wikipedia
Works
Aske i munnen, sand i skoa
Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes
Det er greit for meg
It's Fine By Me
Til Sibir
To Siberia
Ut og stjæle hester
Out Stealing Horses
Jeg forbanner tidens elv
I Curse the River of Time
Jeg nekter
I Refuse
Menn i min situasjon
Men in My Situation