Author- Peter Høeg

Nationality- Danish

Age- 64 years

Peter Høeg, (conceived May 17, 1957, Copenhagen, Denmark), Danish creator most famous for his honour winning novel Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (1992; Smilla’s Sense of Snow, U.K. title Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow), a thrill ride that worries the examination concerning the demise of a bit of youngster.

Høeg experienced childhood in Copenhagen and lives now in Nørre Snede in Jutland. He has four kids. In 1996 he set up the Lolwe establishment, giving monetary help to ladies and kids in the third world, particularly in Africa and Tibetan outcast regions.

In 1984 Høeg procured a graduate degree in writing from the University of Copenhagen. His first novel, Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede (1988; The History of Danish Dreams), set up his standing in Denmark. The work ranges more than three and a half hundred years. It incorporates components of sorcery authenticity, exploring different avenues regarding the story voice and unleashing devastation with ideas of time and materiality. Høeg followed his introduction with Fortællinger om natten (1990; Tales of the Night), a book of complex short stories, all analyzing a similar topic and all co-occurring.

After two years, he delivered his worldwide success Smilla’s Sense of Snow, which was converted into at any rate 17 dialects and distributed to more than 30 nations. The emotional story subtleties Smilla Jaspersen’s examination concerning the passing of her young neighbour. When the kid tumbles from the top of their apartment complex in Copenhagen, something about his impressions in the snow that lead to the edge of the rooftop makes Smilla reject the authority police finding of inadvertent demise. Her examination takes her to her local Greenland. The book was the first of Høeg’s attempts to be converted into English, and it was made into a 1997 component film featuring British entertainer Julia Ormond as Smilla.

Following the considerable accomplishment of Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Høeg had moderate accomplishment with De måske egnede (1993; Borderliners), an account of social brutality and kinship among a gathering of untouchables at a world-class non-public school, and Kvinden og aben (1996; The Woman and the Ape), where the spouse of a regarded zoologist attempts to save a chimp from death because of the researchers considering him. Following ten years during which he, for all intents and purposes, vanished, Høeg distributed Den stille pige (2006; The Quiet Girl), an unpredictable spine chiller about a carnival comedian who utilizes his uplifted feeling of hearing to look for a bit of youngster disappeared. The epic’s helpless surveys constrained Høeg to withdraw further from the scholarly spotlight. Despite the joyous gathering for his 2010 book, Elefantpassernes børn (The Elephant Keepers’ Children), Høeg decided to stay out of the public eye. His next book, the thrill ride Effekten af Susan (2014; The Susan Effect), focuses on a very skilled lady at uncovering privileged insights.