“It has to be said, on the evidence of these few novels, that Per Petterson is a profoundly gifted novelist”
 – RICHARD FORD

“I was completely taken with Out Stealing Horses  from the very first page. I found it powerful yet so quietly done I could hear myself breathe and I finished with an exhalation of awe”
 – AMY TAN

“Undoubtedly one of the major Nordic authors of our time”
LIRE, FRANCE

“It’s said about some writers that they write the same book over and over again. It is tempting to say about this year’s prize winner that he is constantly writing more and more on the same book. This is an unusually unified oeuvre – one, solid literary work, which nevertheless constantly expands, heads into new directions, sharpens its focus. And behind it there is a writer who constantly tries a little harder. His works are full of people who have never been to [literary garden parties on the posh side of the city] – they have hardly been to the west side at all, nor do they have any interest in going there – and they use a language which is a bit different than the one which is spoken on [Oslo’s west side], a language that reveal a different background and different previous experience. This year’s winner has showed again and again to what literary heights you can reach when you use that language in the right way, when you know what you’re doing and you don’t take the easy way out.”
– From the statement by the Aschehoug Prize jury on their giving the 2016 prize to Per Petterson