Karl Ove Knausgård

is a Norwegian author. He is the author of A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, trans. James Anderson (Portobello Books, 2009) and the six-volume Min kamp (2009–2011), the first three books of which have been translated into English as My Struggle: Book 1, My Struggle Book 2: A Man in Love (trans. Don Bartlett, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013-2014) and My Struggle: Book Three (trans, Barbara Haveland, Archipelago, 2014).

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Out to where storytelling does not reach

To write is to write one’s way through the preconceived and into the world on the other side, to see the world as children can, as fantastic or terrifying, but always rich and wide-open. Karl Ove Knausgård on creating literature.

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