Karl Ove Knausgård
| Karl Ove Knausgård | |
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Karl Ove Knausgård 2011
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| Born |
6 December 1968 Oslo, Norway |
| Occupation | Author, novelist |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | University of Bergen |
| Genre | Fiction, memoir |
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).
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.
His second novel, A Time for Everything (2004), partly retells certain parts of the Bible as well as the history of angels on earth. The book won a number of awards, and was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. It was also nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It has been called a "strange, uneven, and marvelous book" by The New York Review of Books.
While Knausgård´s two first books were well received, it was with the six-volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels that made Knausgård become a household name in Norway. Published from 2009 to 2011 and totaling over 3,500 pages, the books were hugely successful and also caused much controversy. 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 father, ex-wife, uncle, and grandmother. The books have nevertheless received almost universally favorable reviews, in particular, the first two volumes. Even before the final book's publication, they were one of the greatest publishing phenomena in Norway ever. In a country of five million people, the Min Kamp series has sold over 450,000 copies.
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