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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

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. His latest and ongoing project, the autobiographical novel MY STRUGGLE, is a great literary accomplishment in more than one sense: It will be published as six novels; the first three volumes have already been published, the remaining three will be published in the spring of 2010. 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.

Karl Ove Knausgård lives in Malmö in Sweden with his wife and three children.