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Peter Høeg


Born
in Copenhagen, Denmark
May 07, 1957

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery


Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer, and actor. He published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams (1988), to positive reviews. However, it was Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1992), a million-copy best seller, that earned Høeg immediate and international literary celebrity. His books have been published in more than thirty countries.

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Average rating: 3.66 · 69,888 ratings · 5,023 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
Smilla's Sense of Snow
3.73 avg rating — 51,468 ratings — published 1992 — 62 editions
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Borderliners
3.67 avg rating — 4,093 ratings — published 1993 — 94 editions
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The Elephant Keepers' Children
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3.44 avg rating — 3,360 ratings — published 2010 — 59 editions
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The Quiet Girl
3.22 avg rating — 3,072 ratings — published 2006 — 53 editions
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The Woman and the Ape
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3.35 avg rating — 2,857 ratings — published 1996
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Effekten af Susan
3.34 avg rating — 1,999 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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The History of Danish Dreams
3.51 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 1988 — 56 editions
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Tales of the Night
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3.80 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 1990
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Sinun silmiesi kautta
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3.40 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Темная сторона Хюгге
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“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
tags: loss, lost, recapture, understand
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“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
tags: lack, longing, mathematics, missing, negative-numbers
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“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow
tags: smilla-s-sense-of-snow
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