Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of the World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. A Death in the Family, the first of the My Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Prize. The My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece, is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. In Book Six, Knausgaard grapples directly with the consequences of his transgressive blurring of public and private. The book is an exploration of literature itself and of the profound – and at times startling – connection between writer and reader. Knausgaard writes regularly for The New York Times Magazine. In 2010, he co-founded the Norwegian independent publishing house Pelikanen.