The €100,000 (US$133,000) award is the world's largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Petterson, 55, received €75,000, with the remainder going to Anne Born, who translated the novel into English. Norwegian author Per Petterson won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award on Thursday for his novel "Out Stealing Horses," which charts how a child's death and a family breakdown end a teenager's innocence and haunt him into old age. In its 12-year existence, the IMPAC prize has gone six times to foreign-language authors whose works were translated into English. The prize is run by Dublin's public library system and financed by a Connecticut-based management consultancy called Improved Management Productivity and Control. IMPAC has its European headquarters in Dublin. A five-judge panel picked the finalists from 138 novels nominated by 169 library systems in 49 countries. Published: June 14, 2007
The Associated Press
Published: June 14, 2007
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The €100,000 (US$133,000) award is the world's largest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.
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