Impac prize 2006
May 2006
Per Petterson wins Independent Foreign Fiction prize
A Scandinavian dark horse has taken the Independent Foreign Fiction prize ahead of a field which was dominated by eastern European authors and included both the Nobel prize winner Imre Kertesz and Impac winner Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Norwegian author Per Petterson has won the £10,000 prize for his fifth novel, Out Stealing Horses, which the judges called "truly remarkable".