Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, including Out Stealing Horses, In the Wake, and To Siberia, which have established him as one of Norway’s best fiction writers. Petterson was born in Oslo to a working-class family. He has worked as a manual laborer, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Out Stealing Horses won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest international prize for a work of fiction written in any language and published in English. Out Stealing Horses was also named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.

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