Some of his favorite fiction writers are Michael Ondaatje, Italo Calvino, J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Jorge Luis Borges, and Willy Kyrklund, a Swedish travel lyricist whose "To Tabbas" has yet to be translated into English and should be, as a humanist antidote to Naipaul." Peter's native language is Swedish, and when he writes in English he feels "somewhat like an imposter, sometimes. Which can be an interesting point of departure."