Peter Behrens (writer)

Peter Behrens
Born (1954-10-07) October 7, 1954 (age 70)
Montreal, Quebec
OccupationNovelist, short stories
Notable worksThe Law of Dreams

Peter Behrens (born 1954) is a Canadian-American novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. His debut novel, The Law of Dreams, won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction,[1] and was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[1]