Published from 2009 to 2011 and totaling over 3,500 pages, the books were hugely successful and also caused much controversy. While Knausgård's two first books were well received, it was the six-volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels that made Knausgård a household name in Norway. It was called a "strange, uneven, and marvelous book" by The New York Review of Books. It was also nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. The book won a number of awards, and was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. His second novel, A Time for Everything (2004), partly retells certain parts of the Bible as well as the history of angels on earth. This was the first time in the award's history that a debut novel had won. 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. He eventually moved to Stockholm and published his first novel in 1998. He then held various jobs, including teaching high school in northern Norway, selling cassettes, working in a psychiatric hospital and on an oil platform, while trying to become a writer. He has won the 2009 Brage Prize, 2017 Jerusalem Prize, and 2019 Swedish Academy Nordic Prize.īorn in Oslo, Knausgård was raised on Tromøya in Arendal and in Kristiansand, and studied arts and literature at the University of Bergen. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle ( Min Kamp). Karl Ove Knausgård ( Norwegian: born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author.
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