Viking Magazine - July 2019 - 26
Whatever his method, it's working.
Petterson won one of the most
substantial literary prizes in the world,
the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award (now known as the
International Dublin Literary Award)
for the English translation of " Out
Stealing Horses " in 2007. The same
novel won the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize and was named one of
The 10 Best Books of 2007 by the
New York Times Book Review. It also
won the Norwegian Critics Prize for
Literature and a Norwegian booksellers
prize when it was fi rst published.
Petterson was nominated for
Scandinavia's biggest literary honor,
the Nordic Council Literature Prize,
for his 1996 novel, " To Siberia. " He
won it in 2009 for " I Curse the River
of Time. " He has twice won Norway's
Brage Prize, for " In the Wake " and for
" I Curse the River of Time. "
In addition to writing novels,
Petterson is quite involved in their
translations into Danish, Swedish
and English.
His steady path toward becoming a
critically acclaimed, best-selling author
with an international audience seems
like make-believe to him now.
" I defi nitely did not think I would
be in the situation, as a writer, that
I'm in today. I didn't even want it, and
somehow still don't, " Petterson says. " I
never thought I could make a living at
writing. I just wanted to write and to be
published, which would prove to myself
and others that what I was making had
some value as literature. I wanted to
write Literature, capital L. That I do it
now for a living-it seems strange. "
From Reading to Writing
Petterson wanted to write serious
literature in part because of a fortunate
coincidence in Norwegian publishing.
He was becoming a voracious young
reader with an appetite for great writing
as a line of world classics was becoming
available in Norwegian.
" In England and America, you had the
paperback revolution through Penguin
Books and the U.S. equivalent, Signet,
and such. Much later, in the mid-1960s,
it happened in Norway. I was the perfect
age. From when I was 14, I switched
from the Hardy Boys to Thomas Hardy,
Tolstoy, Hemingway, de Beauvoir,
Camus, the whole lot. Within a few
Reading Roundup
Where to start reading Per Petterson's books in English.
Find these books at graywolfpress.org.
" Out Stealing Horses " and " To Siberia " are
some of Petterson's most iconic works.
These two novels, though not directly
related, both show how World War II cast
its long shadow on families involved in
the resistance movement against the
occupying Nazis in Denmark ( " To Siberia " )
and in Norway ( " Out Stealing Horses " ).
Petterson's biggest success to date has
been with " Out Stealing Horses, " which
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won him the prestigious International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2007.
Check out the re-released paperback of
" Out Stealing Horses " by Graywolf Press.
" Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes "
If short stories are your thing, begin here.
This little book of 10 tales was Petterson's
fi rst published work. Much of Petterson's
writing is about growing up, including the
books mentioned above, but two other
fi ne coming-of-age tales are Petterson's
fi rst novel, " Echoland " and " It's Fine
By Me. " Petterson's work has found a
worldwide audience partly by dealing
with the hard things that families in every
country experience. Three of his best in
this vein are " In the Wake " and " I Curse the
River of Time, " which won Petterson the
Nordic Council Literature Prize, and
" I Refuse. "
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