Karl Ove Knausgård (Norwegian pronunciation:[ˈkɑːɭ ˈuːvə ˈknæʉsˌgɔːɾ]; born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author, known for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp).
Literary career
Debut and follow-up
Knausgård made his publishing debut in 1998 with the novel Out of the World, for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. This was the first time in the award's history that a debut novel had won.
While Knausgård´s two first books were well received, it was with the six volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels, published from 2009 to 2011 and totaling over 3,500 pages, that Knausgård became a household name in Norway, due to the books' large success as well as the controversy they raised. The controversy was caused partly because the Norwegian title of the book, Min Kamp, is the same as the Norwegian title of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and partly because some have suggested Knausgård goes too far in exposing the private lives of his friends and family, including his ex-wife and grandmother. The books have nevertheless received almost universally favourable reviews, especially the first two volumes, and, even before the final book's publication, they were one of the greatest publishing phenomena in Norway ever. In a country of fewer than five million people, the Min Kamp series has sold over 450,000 copies.
...Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, which I hear is great.” He also introduced us to his Grandpa Morrie, a sentient Roomba, and shared some of the ways he’s learned to process and replicate human emotion.
... exports from a country that is home to a only 5.5 million people, but boasts not just Nobel winner Fosse but also autofiction trendsetters such as Karl Ove Knausgård, Vigdis Hjorth and Linn Ullmann.
Photo. HanJie Chow ... They are our robots ... After all, he’s read every Wikipedia entry there is, “as well as every digitized novel — except for My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård, which I hear is great.” He’s also able to “navigate serious moral dilemmas”.
Photo-Illustration. by The Cut; Photo. Retailer ...AskTara Selter ... Karl Ove Knausgård called it “absolutely, utterly incredible”; Rachel Cusk, who was sent a preview copy, sung its praises earlier this year at a Harper’s panel with Ben Lerner ... So are we.
It’s hard to imagine Karl Ove Knausgård with a macaw or SallyRooney with a sulphur-crested cockatoo, but every writer needs a Herb, a marvellous companion of inestimable humour, who to get my ...
The main character, a wild girl from Australia, could stand on top of fountains and travelled around with a whale by balancing on the water spray the whale exhaled. Reading that book was one of the great experiences of my childhood.
But what is the difference between a wonder and a sign – and which do we prefer? Such questions flow through Karl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star series of novels, an ongoing effort to open fiction up ...
The contemporary vogue for auto-fiction, let alone the introspections of Karl Ove Knausgård, all owe something to the example Isherwood gave in his Berlin novels of the 1930s, his subsequent short ...
My daughter was two and a half when I was first diagnosed with blood cancer ... Cue the tears and the massive meltdown ... It’s only us who go ... It’s something Karl Ove Knausgård reflects on at the beginning of his six-volume autobiography, My Struggle ... Share ... .
A year after Smith’s essay appeared, Karl Ove Knausgård published the first volume of My Struggle, inaugurating an autofiction boom that both repudiated and affirmed Smith’s theory of the case.
It did ... 'I was writing ... “The writer of the source material, who I won’t identify but whose initials are Karl Ove Knausgård,' Payne says, 'read the script late in the process, and language in the contract allowed him to exercise some kind of kibosh.
