Per Petterson

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Per Petterson

Per Petterson (born July 18, 1952 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian writer . He is now internationally recognized as the "novelist of Norwegian Weltschmerz".

Life

Per Petterson, a trained librarian , worked as a bookseller, translator and literary critic before devoting himself entirely to writing.

His novel Is already in order ( Det er greit for meg ) was awarded the Språklig samlings litteraturpris in 1992 . His book Sehnsucht nach Sibirien ( Til Sibir ) was nominated for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council in 1997; In 2007 Petterson received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, endowed with 100,000 euros, for stealing horses ( Ut og stjæle hester ) .

His novel Men in My Situation (2019), the seventh he translated into German, is an unusual, border-crossing divorce novel that emotionally transports a "meltdown of anger and despair, guilt and disappointment, powerlessness and hatred, desire for destruction and loneliness".

Prizes and awards

Works

  • 1987: Aske i munnen, sand i skoa
  • 1989: Ekkoland
  • 1992: Det he greit for meg
    • 2011: It's okay . Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23640-0 .
  • 1996: Til Sibir
    • 1999: Longing for Siberia. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-446-19657-9 .
  • 2000: I kjølvannet
    • 2007: In the wake. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20867-4 .
  • 2003: Ut og stjæle hester
    • 2006: stealing horses. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-446-20734-9 .
  • 2004: Månen over porten
  • 2008: Jeg forbanner tidens elv
    • 2009: I curse the flow of time. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Hanser Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23420-8 .
  • 2012: Jeg nekter
    • 2014: Not with me. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Hanser Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24604-1 .
  • 2018: Menn i min situasjon
    • 2019: Men in my position. Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Ina Kronenberger. Verlag Carl Hanser, Munich 2019. 285 pages, ISBN 978-3-446-26377-2 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Breitenstein: Stig Sæterbakken and Per Petterson present two divorce novels that have it all , a review on men in my situation in the NZZ on August 27, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019
  2. ↑ Tidligere vinnere av Aschehougprisen , Aschehoug from September 8, 2017, accessed August 28, 2019 (Norwegian)
personal data
SURNAME Petterson, Per
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo