Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg

Høeg was surprised by the response and has since said the complexity of the book was nowhere near that of films like Inception or Memento. At the time of its publication, its reception in Denmark was mixed at best, and the novel was generally disregarded as being either too complex or too postmodern. Høeg resurfaced in 2006 with The Quiet Girl, his first novel in 10 years. Høeg virtually disappeared in 1996 after the lukewarm reception of The Woman and the Ape. In 1993 he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær (The Golden Laurel) and the Danish Critics Prize for Literature for his book De måske egnede (English title: Borderliners). It was Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow that earned Høeg immediate and international literary celebrity. Over the next five years he wrote and published the short story collection Tales of Night, and the novels: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992), Borderliners (1993). He decided at that stage to protect his personal life. Peter Høeg published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams, in 1988 to very positive reviews. After a personal crisis, he spent a year working as a sailor on wealthy people's yachts, before returning to graduate with a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Copenhagen in 1984. He studied literature at the University of Copenhagen under Peter Brask, a Danish literary scholar, composer and author. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ballet dancer and actor (in addition to fencing and mountaineering)-experiences that he uses in his novels. He is best known for his novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992). Peter Høeg (born ) is a Danish writer of fiction.

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg