Awards and prizes:
To Siberia (1996) was nominated for The Nordic Council's Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002) won the Brage Prize for 2000. Jeg forbanner tidens elv (2008; I Curse the River of Time) won The Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 2009.
Petterson's breakthrough novel Ut og stjæle hester (2003) was awarded two top literary prizes in Norway - the The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers’ Best Book of the Year Award. The 2005 English language translation, Out Stealing Horses, was awarded the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 2007 the New York Times Book Review named Out Stealing Horses one of the 10 best books of the year.
