Karl Ove Knausgård
Karl Ove Knausgård (December 6, 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian writer.
Life
Karl Ove Knausgård came as the son of a teacher and a nurse, and grew up with an older brother to Tromøy at Arendal and in Kristiansand on. He studied art history and literature at the University of Bergen. His literary debut Ute av verde was in 1998 with the Norwegian critics prizes, and for the first time a first novel by an author, excellent. In 2004, the novel En tid for old, who was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary and the Award under the title Everything has its time exists in German translation.
Published in 2009 Knausgård the first three of its comprehensive six volumes, autobiographical novel scale project Min Kamp (translation: My Struggle). The appearance of the first volume, which deals with the difficult relationship with his father, while " in a veritable flood of thoughts " essayistic passages connects with childhood and youth memories, made in Norway for a great stir and heated debate. The book became a bestseller and was voted by readers of the newspaper Morgenbladet book of the year. Knausgård was awarded the most prestigious literary prize in his home country, the Brageprisen. 2011 came the first volume under the title Dying out in German.
Karl Ove Knausgård is the father of three children and lives with his family in Österlen in Sweden.
Works
- Dying (From the Norwegian by Paul Berf ) Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87351-0
- Love (From the Norwegian by Paul Berf ) Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87370-1
- Playing (From the Norwegian by Paul Berf ) Luchterhand, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87412-8