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Portrait image of Per Petterson More pictures Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2019) Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2019)

Petterson, Per

Country/Region:
Norway
Born:
July 18, 1952
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose
Norwegian author born in Oslo to a working class family with left-wing sympathies. His father was a logger of Swedish descent; his grandfather had been born in the Swedish province of Värmland. Petterson’s mother was Danish. His father, mother and a younger brother were among the 159 victims who died when the passenger ferry Scandinavia Star disaster caught fire en route from Oslo to Frederikshavn in April, 1990.

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