Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.

"An extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there" -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times "An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate" Scotsman "A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members" Independent "Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying" Financial Times "The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences" -- Blake Morrison Guardian Books of the Year

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.

"An extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there" -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times "An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate" Scotsman "A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members" Independent "Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying" Financial Times "The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences" -- Blake Morrison Guardian Books of the Year

Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake, I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse. Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses, which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller.

"An extraordinarily humane work...I Refuse will lodge in the heart and remain there" -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times "An exquisite story of a friendship formed and lost in a twist of fate" Scotsman "A poignant novel about the bonds forged and broken between friends and family members" Independent "Relentless, often shocking, but always satisfying" Financial Times "The suspense isn't in the plot but in the prose, with its extraordinary looping sentences" -- Blake Morrison Guardian Books of the Year