Per Petterson is the author of books including "In the Wake", "To Siberia", and "I Curse the River of Time". "Out Stealing Horses" has won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize. "The New York Times Book Review" named it one of the 10 best books of the year. A former bookseller, Petterson lives in Oslo, Norway.