Knausgård, Karl Ove
Winner of the 2009 Brage Award
Winner of the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet
Winner of the 2010 P2 Listeners' Prize
Winner of the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize
Nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize
Nominated for the 2009 Norwegian Critics' Prize
Nominated for the 2009 Booksellers' Prize
Nominated for the 2009 Youth Critics' Prize
Longlisted for the 2010 IMPAC Award
Nominated for the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize
”… a writer who in a unique way manages to breathe life into trivial matters – life’s elemantary particles. The majority of novels are competently executed. Then there are some which are really good. And finally there is a minority which are dizzying and absolutely engrossing works of art. Karl Ove Knausgård’s MY STRUGGLE is of the latter kind.”
(Göteborgsposten, Sweden on the first four volumes of MY STRUGGLE)
Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel OUT OF THE WORLD, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. His second novel, A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER HEAVEN (2004), was also a huge success, praised by a.o. The Guardian and The Independent. Published by Portobello in the UK in 2009, this novel has been longlisted for the prestigious 2010 IMPAC Award.
In the autumn of 2009, Knausgård embarked on an unparallelled literary journey. The autobiographical novel MY STRUGGLE, is a great literary accomplishment in more than one sense: It consists of six novels, the last of which is published autumn 2011. Vol. 1 was awarded the prestigious 2009 Brage Award, and it has also been nominated for the 2010 Nordic Council's Literary Prize. In addition to amazing reviews, this fascinating literary experiment has generated an enormous interest among Norwegian journalists, critics and readers, resulting in hundreds of articles, commentaries, essays, blog posts and discussions. By the time of the publication of the six volume, the first five volumes had sold an incredible 400.000 copies combined.
Karl Ove Knausgård lives in Malmö in Sweden with his wife and three children.
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