Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård (b 1968, Norway) is an author and publisher living in London.

He attended the Writing Arts Academy in Bergen from 1988 to 1989 and studied literary studies at the University of Bergen. For his debut novel Out of the world (1988) he was the first author ever to receive the Critics’ Prize with a debut novel. His next novel, A Time for Everything, was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

In 2009 he published the first novel in his autobiographical work My Struggle. The six novels in the work have been translated into 35 languages, and have brought Knausgård several prestigious awards, among them the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize (2019), Die Welt’s Literature Prize (2015) and Wall Street Journal’s Innovator Award for Literature (2015).

His latest novel is Nattskolen (The Night School, 2023), the fourth volume of what is called the Morning Star series.