When was the author of the novel "Fires of Winter", born?
Fires of Winter Fires of Winter is a novel by Johanna Lindsey originally published in September 1980 by Avon Books. It is the first book in the Haardrad Family Saga Series.
Per Petterson Per Petterson (born 18 July 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was "Aske i munnen, sand i skoa" (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels to good reviews. "To Siberia" (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. "I kjølvannet", translated as "In the Wake" (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the "Scandinavian Star" ferry disaster in 1990 (Petterson himself lost his mother, father, younger brother and a niece in the disaster); it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel "Jeg forbanner tidens elv" ("I Curse the River of Time") won The Nordic Council's Literature Prize for 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.