© Photos of young stallions at Feøya: Trond Thorvaldsen, Fredrikstad, Norway
We’re in Dublin, a great opportunity for me to present a Norwegian novelist who won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2007:
“Out stealing horses” by Per Petterson
Per Petterson is a trained librarian. He has worked as a bookstore clerk, translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His breakthrough novel was “Ut og stjæle hester” (2003), which was awarded two top literary prizes in Norway – the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers’ Best Book of the Year Award. The 2005 English language translation “Out Stealing Horses” was awarded the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (the world’s largest monetary literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English (€ 100,000). “Out Stealing Horses” was named one of the 10 best books of the year in the December 9, 2007 issue of the New York Times Book Review.
All the photos taken by Trond Thorvaldsen are from an island called Feøya (Cattle island) in Norway. This is a holiday island for young and old stallions from our local district, trotters, gallopers, show jumpers and dressage horses. This island is situated in a rather large lake (Vannsjø) not far from the city of Moss, situated in the county of Østfold. Wonderful place where they roam about all summer long. (Thanks Tone!)
“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.” – Per Petterson “Out stealing horses”
“But that’s life. That’s what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.” – Per Petterson “Out stealing horses”
“If I just concentrate I can walk into memory’s store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it….” – Per Petterson “Out stealing horses”
Wow, fantastic and beautiful photos! Very nice to see.
LikeLike
Thank you, dear creative garden, for taking the time to look into my blog and making such a nice comment. 🙂
Greetings from beautiful Dublin
Dina
LikeLike
Tolle Aufnahmen, sooo viel Dynamik und Kraft und Freiheit…
LikeLike
Vielen Dank! 🙂
LikeLike
They are gorgeous!!! These shots are wonderful! Thank you Dina 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you for visiting and commenting, dear Paula!
Greetings from literary Dublin
Dina
LikeLike
Was für stolze Tiere, die du in ihrer ganzen Schönheit festgehalten hast, toll! Ich spüre Freiheit und ein wildes Leben 🙂
LikeLike
Viele Dank für den Besuch und den feinen Kommetar, liebe Annenieannenou. Ja, das sind wirklich schöne, wilde Tiere. Es ist ein großes Event jedes Jahr, wenn die Hengste auf dieser Insel freigesetzt werden.
Liebe Grüße zu dir in Berlin
von Klausbernd und mir in Dublin
🙂
LikeLike
the images are incredible! i love them all! z
LikeLike
Oh, that’s great, I love them too – and I’m very happy about your nice comment!
Take care.
Love Dina
LikeLike
Gorgeous images. “Out Stealing Horses” was just given to me as a gift! I am excited to read it.
LikeLike
How lovely! Read and enjoy. It takes place not too far away from my hometown in Norway
Greetings to you from the literary city of Dublin
Dina.
LikeLike
That first quote is spot on! And as always those pictures are spectacular. I wonder how the photographer was able to catch the horses so much being themselves. Thanks for such a gorgeous post to get me going in the morning. I’ll have to see if I can kick up my heels a bit like these guys. Hope your time away is lovely.
Love Jennifer
LikeLike
Hi dear Jennifer,
thank you for visiting and commenting. Yes, we’re having a great time in Dublin, it’s truly worth a visit. You have a lovely post today as well, beautiful art work!
Take care, all the best
from the city of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett and many more…
Dina and Klausbernd
LikeLike
Those are some HAPPY horses! Beautiful pictures!!!
LikeLike
Hi Rhythm,
how grand to get a comment from a librarian labrador, thank you!
Fond cuddles from Ireland
Dina
LikeLike
Beautiful pictures, beautiful animals! 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you, Chillbrook. Yes, they’re beautiful indeed.
🙂
LikeLike
Grandiose Pferdefotos – wunderschön.
Liebe Grüße nach Dublin, Szintilla
LikeLike
Vielen Dank, liebe Szintilla.
Ganz herzliche Grüße zurück zu dir aus Dublin
Dina und Klausbernd
LikeLike
lovely shots
LikeLike
Thank you! 🙂
LikeLike
“Out stealing horses” is a great book. I am currently reading Per Pettersons latest book, “Jeg nekter”, pulished 2012, (Norwegian title – translated to English it will be something like “I refuse”). Previously I read “I curse the river of time” published in 2008. Didn’t get so wrapped up in that book as I am in his new.
Picture taken by Trond Thorvaldsen is from an island called Feøya (Cattle island). This is a holiday island for young and old stallions from our local district, trotters, gallopers, show jumpers and dressage horses. This island is situated in a rather large lake (Vannsjø) not far from the city of Moss, situated in the county of Østfold. Wonderful place where they roam about all summer long.
LikeLike
Dear Tone, thank you for filling in the missing details about the stallions! 🙂
I loved reading “Out stealing horses” too, you introduced that book to me some years ago.
By the way, we saw his new book “I refuse” in the windows of the bookshops in Dublin today.
Greetings to Fredrikstad and gutta
from us in Dublin. You’d love this city!
Hanne og Klausbernd
LikeLike
Mmmm. Dublin is high on our list. But I will correct myself with regards to the stallions; Jostein read my comment, and reminded me that this wonderful holiday resort for the stallions is only for the young ones, NOT the old stallions. Summer youthcamp, you might say, 😀 Jostein and Jon Olav was there a few years ago with the young stallion after our mare Quinta. He spend 2 summers at Feøya. Lucky him then, now he is no longer a stallion 😦 but a gelding, he he.
Is the last book from Per Petterson really called “I refuse”. Brilliant translation by me 😀
Love and kisses from me and the boys to both of you ❤
LikeLike
Takk nok en gang, Tone.
Dublin is beautiful, highly interesting and lots of fun. There’re many norwegians here!
Ha det,
vi treffer Mr. Perfectlight fra Irish Poscard senere i kveld i Temple Bar.
Hilsen Hanne, Klausbernd
og bokfeene
LikeLike
Danke an Trond Thorvaldsen für diese grandiosen Fotos! Das erste ist wunder-, wunderschön!
Über den Satz You decide for yourself when it will hurt. hab ich jetzt eine Weile nachgedacht… Was drückt er genau aus? Mein Englisch ist nicht in Übung, daher bin ich nicht sicher. Ich würde ihn so verstehen, dass wenn du weißt, dass das, wofür du dich entscheidest, weh tun wird, dann hast du dich für dich selbst entschieden, denn wer würde sich weh tun lassen, um jemand anderem zu gefallen?
Liebe Grüße
Marion
LikeLike
oder… es liegt in deiner Macht, ob es weh tut oder nicht? Wenn die Gefühle weniger Macht haben, also wenn du es distanziert betrachtest?
Liebe Grüße
Dina, die gleich bei Klausbernd nachfragt… 🙂
LikeLike
Weißt du, liebe Marion, das Problem mit Zitaten ist immer das, man muss sie im Zusammenhang betrachten (was ständig missachtet wird). Es ist ein paar Jahre her, als ich das Buch gelesen habe und deswegen habe ich es nicht parat und kann es hier im Hotel in Dublin nicht nachschlagen. Der springende Punkt bei diesem Zitat ist das “when”. Die wörtliche Übersetzung heißt: “Du entscheidest selbst, wann es schmerzen wird.” D.h. es wird davon ausgegangen, dass es schmerzt, aber den Zeitpunkt wann es schmerzen wird, kannst du selbst entscheiden. Ich hätte eher formuliert: You decide for yourself if it will hurt – also: Du entscheidest selbst, ob es schmerzen wird. Aber das temporale when geht eindeutig davon aus, dass der Schmerz unumgänglich ist und du nur den Zeitpunkt bestimmen kannst, wann er eintritt.
Wie gesagt, obwohl mir Per Pettersons Roman gut gefallen hat, stimme ich nicht mit diesem Zitat überein, es ist zu schicksalsgläubig: Zumindest in der englischen Übersetzung geht es davon aus, dass der Schmerz ein unvermeidbares Faktum ist. Der Ansicht bin ich nicht. Ich wage, kühn zu vermuten, dass Petterson im Original geschrieben hat, dass man selbst entscheidet, ob man verletzt wird.
Liebe Grüße aus dem sonnig warmen Dublin
Klausbernd 🙂
LikeLike
Tone, please help us! 🙂
We have the book in german at home, you are the only one I know that has got the norwegian original text, can you please find out what
“You decide for yourself when it will hurt” sounds like, word by word by Per Petterson, that’d be really great!
Thanks.X
LikeLike
Welch grandiose Aufnahmen – welch dynamische, herrliche, freie Tiere. Das Buch werde ich mir anschauen und lesen. Herzliche Grüße nach Dublin!
LikeLike
Viel Lesespaß und herzliche Grüße dir aus Dublin!
Dina
LikeLike
Very well captured these beautiful horses… 😉
Like this: “Time is important to me now, I tell myself – not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking” (Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses)… 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks for this great quote Andrikken!
Greetings to you in Denmark from sunny Dublin. 🙂
Dina
LikeLike
Amazing pictures.. so stunning.
LikeLike
Indeed they are. Thank you for visiting and commenting, Carole!
LikeLike
Flotte bilder og flotte hester. Og bildene tatt på Frøya?
Trodde ikke det var slike hester der ute!
Ha en flott kveld!
LikeLike
Må bruke briller, ser jeg. Feøya, – da forstår jeg!
LikeLike
Neida, går greit det! 🙂
Takk for besøket, Hans.
Solhilsen fra vakre Dublin,
Dina
LikeLike
Kos dere masse! Dublin er en herlig by!
Min kone er meget godt kjent i Dublin så jeg er alltid i de beste heder når jeg er der!!
LikeLike
Det er vi også! 🙂
Irene er like stolte av Irland som vi er av Norge, hovedsaken er at vi trives og nyter land og kultur, mat og drikke. Det er jo overhodet ikke vanskelig i denne fantastiske byen da… 🙂
P.S. Jeg har fått/hatt fototillatelse for the long room på Trinity College og i det sanselöst fine Chester Beatty Library, Marsh’s Library, the Royal Irish Academy, ååååååååå, til ä dåne av. Ha det!
LikeLike
Oh my, thank you for posting these pictures. This was the perfect way to brighten my very rainy, drippy day. I love horses and these pictures are fantastic.
LikeLike
Hi Kathie, I’m glad you liked them! Horses are bautiful animals indeed.
Love Dina
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Bellissima und kommentierte:
I wanted to share this posting of horses in Norway from Living and Loving in the North, one of the blogs I follow. My heart went pitter patter when I opened up this posting on what is a very dreary, drippy day in the Pacific Northwest. I love horses and this just went to the core of my heart.
LikeLike
Wow, thank you ever so much, what an honour! Happy greetings to you. 🙂
LikeLike
Ha, “a trained librarian”. I like that, cause I’m a trained librarian myself – and now interested in “Out stealing horses”, that has been published in Germany allready! And as I do this research in the library catalogue, I just discovered, that I have been reading “Til Sibir” some time ago (and I liked it!).
Thank you for bringing this author into my mind again!!
Jarg
LikeLike
You’re very welcome! You’d like our days here in Dublin, we go from one outstanding library to the next one, true beauties.
Happy reading, Jarg!
Greetings from sunny literary Dublin
Dina and Klausbernd
and the bookfairies Siri and Selma, who are enjoying themselves thoroughly
🙂
LikeLike
Hi, Jarg
jetzt habe ich angefangen Pettersons Erstling „Sehnsucht nach Sibirien“ zu lesen, danke für den Hinweis. In beiden Büchern besteht eine große zeitliche Kluft zwischen der Erzählzeit und der erzählten Zeit, was an sich schon eine eigene Art von kompositorischer Spannung bereithält; genau darin liegt ein Teil des Pathos in “Pferde stehlen” finde ich.
Liebe Grüße
Dina
LikeLike
Hi Dina,
das freut mich! Ich meinerseits lasse mir “Pferde stehlen” aus einer anderen Bibliothek kommen – und bin gespannt …!
Liebe Grüsse von
Jarg
LikeLike
“Pferde stehlen” war eine wunderbare, berührende Lektüre – für mich eine der schönsten des Jahres. Danke nochmal für den Tipp!!
LikeLike
Superb images of beautiful animals.
LikeLike
Thank you Lois!
Have a great day,
love from Dublin
Dina
LikeLike
The photographs of the horses are magnificient, especially the first one. Per Pettersen’s book looks like a good read, I peeked inside it on Amazon. Have you read it?
LikeLike
Hi Mary, thanks for visiting!
Yes, I have read “Out stealing horses” a few years ago, in German. Tone introduced me to Per Petterson, like to many other temporary norwegiand writers as well. He’s well worth reading, please give it a try!
Happy reading!
Love
Dina
LikeLike
great photos!
LikeLike
Thank you, I’ll pass the compliment on to Trond! 🙂
LikeLike
I don’t know how I came to your site but I’m glad I did. These photos are amazing. They remind me of the horses on Sable Island in Canada …. the difference is that Sable Island horses run wild and are protected by the Canadian government.
LikeLike
Klausbernd lived in Canada and knows the famous Sable Island, I’ll look it up, I’m curious now! 🙂
On Feöya the horses run free the whole summer, but they are not wild.
Thanks for taking the time to visit and commenting!
Love
Dina
LikeLike
Wunderschöne Fotos, liebe Dina! Und weiter eine schöne Zeit in Irland : ) Liebe Grüße, Petra
LikeLike
Vielen Dank liebe Petra,
wir genießen jede Sekunde, Dublin ist pure Lesefreude. Und viel, viel mehr.
Liebe Grüße zurück,
Dina und Klausbernd
LikeLike
so liebe ich Pferde, wild und frei, wie sie hier dargestellt werden … wunderbare Fotos und …
herzlichen Dank
und liebe Grüße
LikeLike
Ja liebe Frau Blau, das finde ich auch, freilebende Pferde haben was.
Herzliche Grüße zurück zu dir aus Dublin
von Dina und Klausbernd
LikeLike
Wirklich ganz wunderbare Tiere sind das, die dazu auch noch so schön fotografiert wurden. Da ist so viel Dynamik drin. Besonders das erste Bild hat es mir angetan.
Liebe Grüße und einen tollen Tag noch! 😉
LikeLike
Herzliche Grüße zurück aus Dublin vons uns 4!
Dina, Masterchen, Siri und Selma
die gerade etwas erschöpft vom Writers Museum zurückgekehrt sind.
🙂
LikeLike
Wonderful pictures! I love horses! Enjoy your time in Dublin, Peggy
LikeLike
Thank you, we’re enjoying every minute of Dublin!
Love Dina
LikeLike
Greetings to the two wild horses in Dublin. Really SUPER photos. Best wishes from an Irish soul in Germany. Have fun!! Joan
LikeLike
Thanks, dear Joan, also thank you so much for calling this morning! 🙂
Your town of birth is SUPER! See you on sunday,
love to you from
Hanne and Klausbernd
Siri and Selma
🙂
LikeLike
Excellent wildlife horses pictures: just so beautiful too!:) Waw!!
LikeLike
Hi Sophie
thanks for visiting and commenting!
🙂
LikeLike
…absolutely stunning pictures …!
Liebe Grüße zu Euch nach Irland 🙂
Ocean
LikeLike
Liebe Ocean,
gand liebherzliche Grüße von uns zurück!
Dina & Co
LikeLike
per petterson – one of my favorites! and the pix are wonderful!
sie sind sooo lebendig, dass ich beinahe die pferde rieche!
herzlich grüsse nach irland
soso
LikeLike
Hi SoSo,
I’m truly happy that you know and like Per Petterson, that’s great!
Greetings to you and Irgendlink
from all of us
Dina
LikeLike
Those are gorgious horse. The photographer did a great job capturing those action shots. I hope those stallions settled down and made friends without hurting one another. Here in Nevada we have wild horses, too.
LikeLike
Hi Cliff, thanks for taking the time visiting and commenting. The stallions are only living wild in the summertime when they stay on the island. The pictures are taken on the day the’re set free, you can sense that by watching the images. And luckily, none was harmed! 🙂
Have a great evening.
Love from Dublin
Dina
LikeLike
Powerful and stunning photos! Thank you for sharing, Dina!
groetjes, Francina
LikeLike
You’re welcome, thanks for visiting, dear Francina!
LikeLike
Absolutely marvellous horse pictures! Where in Norway is this island located?
LikeLike
Thank you, I’m glad you like hem.
This cattle island is called Feøya, the island is situated in a rather large lake (Vannsjø) not far from the city of Moss, situated in the county of Østfold.
Greetings from Dublin
Dina
LikeLike
These pictures are stunning. It’s so hard to catch animals doing interesting things, and these are amazing. I also enjoyed your article. Thanks for visiting my site. I’ll be following yours. 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you! Have a great weekend.
Love Dina
LikeLike
You have captured their magnificence – a summer camp for horses, brilliant! How do they get there and are they loathe to return home after their holiday, like the rest of us?
LikeLike
Yes, magnificent!
LikeLike
beautiful!!
LikeLike
Dearest Dina! These magnificent photos captured the majesty and elegance of such fine beautiful creatures. I am inspired just looking at how vibrant and alive these shots are. Wow. Sharon
LikeLike
Thank you Sharon!
LikeLike
Fantastic photos (also the blue winter-photo on the next post). These pictures are better that the book mentioned, for me…
LikeLike
Tusen takk skal du ha!
Hmmm.. 🙂
Hehehe 🙂
LikeLike
This set of photographs took my breath away. Absolutely beautiful!
Elisa
LikeLike
Thank you Elisa!
LikeLike
These photos are just magnificent, really breathtaking! Oh, ich kann ja Deutsch schreiben… 😉 Aus den Bildern sprechen die Kraft dieser Tiere, Wildheit, Ausgelassenheit, aber auch Sanftheit und Sensibilität, wunderschön!
LikeLike
Das hast du sehr schön ausgedruckt! Herzlichen Dank für den Besuch und den feinen Kommentar, darüber habe ich mich sehr gefreut! 🙂
LikeLike
I love this series of photos… it reminds me of a family trip we took to England and saw horses on Dart Moore… i loved it.. some of the best times I had as a kid… thanks for the happy and unexpected trip down memory lane. 🙂
LikeLike
Thank you for visiting and your lovely comment!
All the best
Dina
LikeLike
Pingback: I Brake For Horses « Zeebra Designs & Destinations
You will surely get a few more visitors to this beautiful post; you’re also included in the ‘token’ award – more of a tip of the hat of appreciation for your talent!
http://playamart.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/i-brake-for-horses/
it saddens me to watch from afar what is happening back in my home country, and reading this post of yours seems to inject me with a bit of belief in nature’s future.
thanks,
lisa/z
LikeLike
OMG, I couldn’t believe this, such a beautiful, sensitive, touching post you have written! And you have mentioned me, honoured me as well, well thank you from the deepest of my heart, you made my day now!
Thank you, Lisa.
Dina
LikeLike
dina, your post is BEAUTIFUL! one could look at those images of horses for hours and never grow weary!
con mucho gusto, it is my pleasure!
z
LikeLike
You’re so kind, thank you for this great shout-out! 🙂
Love
Dina x
LikeLike
Incredible, gorgeous photos!
LikeLike
Beautiful photos!
LikeLike
What a beautiful place for horses. And they are stunning.
Horses are my favorite. I was around many growing up. Never owned one, but rode them.
These pictures are gorgeous and it is nice to see them roam free for a summer 🙂
Dina, I hope you don’t mind if I reblog your link on my reblog page?
LikeLike
Pingback: Pferde stehlen : Roman / Per Petterson « Jargs Blog
amazing clicks!
LikeLike
Pingback: Wasser, Wellen, Wogen und Pferde stehlen – Linolschnitt von Susanne Haun « Susanne Haun -> Drawing -> Zeichnung -> Dibujo -> 水彩画
@ Susanne Haun:
Vielen Dank für den Link! Wow, hast du einen tollen Beitrag geschrieben! So feine Skizzen; I’m impressed!
Herzliche Grüße aus Norfolk, on the way to Cambridge
Hanne
LikeLike
Hi Hanne,
always loved Norway, now even more 🙂 Looks like we have some “true North” in common! Thanks for the “follow”
LikeLike
You are very welcome! My pleasure! 🙂
LikeLike
Magnificent creatures! and great shots!
LikeLike
Absolutely beautiful photographs, the horses are stunning. I’ve added Cattle Island to my ever growing ‘WanderlusT list 🙂 Our stealing horses sounds like a good read, I’ll keep my eye out for the author now, are they translated into english at all?
LikeLike
stunning beauties, superb shots, full mastership. Wanda
LikeLike
Dear Wanda,
thank you 🙂
We wish you a happy weekend
the Fab Four of Cley
LikeLike
Some brilliant composition. I am so, so jealous!
LikeLike