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04/05/2006
Petterson takes the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was presented to Norwegian writer Per Petterson for his fifth novel, Out Stealing Horses, at a ceremony at the National Portrait Gallery last night.
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize is Britain's most valuable annual award for fiction in translation and Petterson shares the 10,000 award with his translator Anne Born.
"[It is] a novel of consistent beauty, subtlety and wisdom, but one that creeps up on the reader and gets unforgettably under your skin rather than announcing its virtues and its visions with a loud fanfare," said Boyd Tonkin, the literary editor of the Independent and one of the judges.
"Translated with unfailing grace and flair by Anne Born, Out Stealing Horses will stay with you like a friend, a guide and a witness."
The book is about an older man who is forced to remember the traumatic events of the summer when he was 15.
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