"It is a very happy man that stands before you. A surprised man," Per Petterson said after Dublin's Lord Mayor named him as winner of the 12th International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Brotherly Love Jones, Radhika
Time (Chicago, Ill.),
10/2008, Letnik:
172, Številka:
17
Magazine Article
Petterson, a Norwegian writer, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award last year for his novel Out Stealing Horses, as well as an even more elusive prize for a work in translation: critical ...acclaim in the U.S. The novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. ... the thing that sticks is the adoring trust sister places in brother, whether she's a child sneaking out with him via rooftop at night ("I'm not scared, and I just do what he does, it is not difficult when we do it in time with each other, he goes first and I follow"), a young woman trying to match his daring or an old woman narrating the memory of her love for him.
Norwegian writer Per Petterson has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, billed as the world's richest prize for a single work of fiction, for Out Stealing Horses.
Could it be that the juxtaposition of dirty deeds and cleanly Swedes seems so contrary? Or is it our enduring fascination with their epic Bergmanesque existential crises in one classic Seinfeld ...episode, Jerry makes a sarcastic comment about the world weariness of a young female writer; her American boyfriend immediately leaps her to defence.
The fragmented time structure is established in the opening pages and is used to show Jim and Tommy's friendship, parting and reunion, the bleak flight of Tommy's mother and other sad stories. Trond ...("Out Stealing Horses"), Jesper ("In Siberia"), Arvid Jansen ("In the Wake" and other novels, as well as "Ashes in My Mouth") -- but their mental music is formed of the same sequence of chords.
