Peter hoeg biography

Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 17, 1957. His father was a lawyer and his mother a classical philologist. Høeg worked as an actor, dancer, drama teacher, and sailor before turning to writing in 1988. Høeg has also traveled extensively throughout the world, most notably in Africa. His wife, Akinyi, is Kenyan, and Høeg and his family visit Africa frequently.

Høeg's first novel Forestilling om det tyvende arhundrede was published in Denmark in 1988. Translated as The History of Danish Dreams, the book was published in English in 1995. Critics praised the debut novel highly. However, it was not until the publication of his third novel, Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne, that Høeg became known internationally. Published simultaneously in 1993 as Smilla's Sense of Snow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and...

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(1957-    ). Danish author, much of whose work seems essentially Equipoisal between various modes – the stressed realism of De måske egnede (1993; trans Barbara Haveland as Borderliners1994); the faux-folkloric idioms of some of the tales assembled in Fortællinger om natten (coll of linked stories 1990; trans Barbara Haveland as Tales of the Night1997); the Magic Realist National Origin Story given a Nordic cast in Forestilling om det Tyvende århundrede (1988; trans Barbara Haveland as The History of Danish Dreams1995) – but which tend ultimately to transgress against mundane readings. His most famous single novel, Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (1992; trans Tiina Nunnaly as Smilla's Sense of Snow1993; also trans F David as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow1993), filmed as Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) directed by Bille August, reads ini

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