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Per Petterson

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Per Petterson

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性別
男性
生誕
1952-07-18 (Oslo, Norway)
国籍
Norwegian
言語
Norwegian

経歴

職業
author, novelist, librarian, translator, literary critic
活動期間
1987年〜
影響を受けた人物
Knut Hamsun, Raymond Carver

受賞歴

Nordic Council Literature Prize
2009
対象作品: I Curse the River of Time
主催: Nordic Council
結果: 受賞
International Dublin Literary Award
2007
対象作品: Out Stealing Horses
主催: International Dublin Literary Award
結果: 受賞
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
2006
対象作品: Out Stealing Horses
主催: The Independent
結果: 受賞
Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
2003
対象作品: Out Stealing Horses
主催: Norwegian Critics Association
結果: 受賞
Norwegian Booksellers' Prize
2003
対象作品: Out Stealing Horses
主催: Norwegian Booksellers
結果: 受賞
Brage Prize
2000
対象作品: In the Wake
主催: Brage Prize
結果: 受賞
Brage Prize
2008
対象作品: I Curse the River of Time
主催: Brage Prize
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Out Stealing Horses

2003年 Fiction

A novel that interweaves youthful events and elderly recollections to explore loss, memory and father–son relationships. The protagonist's past and present intersect in rural Norway.

lossmemoryfamilylandscapesolitude
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Out Stealing Horses / Hans Petter Moland (2019)
翻訳
  • English translation: Out Stealing Horses (translator: Don Bartlett)

I Curse the River of Time

2008年 Fiction

A novel where past memories and present events intersect, depicting family, loss and an anguished relation to the passage of time. Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009.

timelossfamilymemory
翻訳
  • English translation: I Curse the River of Time

In the Wake

2000年 Fiction

A story of a young man who lost family members in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster and his life afterward. Won the Brage Prize.

losstraumafamily

To Siberia

1996年 Fiction

A novel set around the Second World War; an English translation exists.

warhistorymemory

全著作

  • Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes (1987)
  • Echoland (1989)
  • It's Fine By Me (1992)
  • To Siberia (1996)
  • In the Wake (2000)
  • Out Stealing Horses (2003)
  • Månen over Porten (2004)
  • I Curse the River of Time (2008)
  • I Refuse (2012)
  • Men in My Situation (2018)
  • Mitt Abruzzo. Journal 21.1 – 18.7.2021 (2021)

翻案

  • Ut og stjæle hester (film adaptation, 2019, dir. Hans Petter Moland)

作品の翻訳

  • Out Stealing Horses (English translation)
  • I Curse the River of Time (English translation)
  • In the Wake (English translation)

作風・主題

文体
restrained narrationconcise, spare prosefusion of landscape description and interior reflection
頻出モチーフ
loss and mourningmemory and recollectionnature and landscapefather–son relationshipssolitude

評価・遺産

Per Petterson is one of Norway's leading contemporary novelists, internationally acclaimed for his restrained prose and recurrent themes of family and memory. His works have been translated into nearly 50 languages and have won several major international literary awards.

大衆文化への影響

  • Out Stealing Horses was adapted into a film and attracted international attention.

豆知識

  • He lost his mother, father, younger brother and a niece in the 1990 Scandinavian Star ferry disaster.
  • His works have been translated into roughly 50 languages.
  • Before becoming a full-time writer he worked as a librarian, bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic.