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Karl Ove Knausgård

Born

in Oslo, Norway

December 06, 1968

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Witold Gombrowicz, Peter Handke, Knut Hamsun, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...more

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Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ 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. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over. ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 185,035 ratings · 18,562 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 49,468 ratings — published 2009 — 159 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Min kamp 2 (Min kamp, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 23,935 ratings — published 2009 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1) by Karl Ove Knausgård, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 17,252 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Min kamp 3 (Min kamp, #3) 4.19 avg rating — 15,474 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4) 4.22 avg rating — 13,273 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Min kamp 5 (Min kamp, #5) 4.42 avg rating — 11,126 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autumn (Seasons Quartet, #1) by Karl Ove Knausgård, Ingvild Burkey (Translator), Vanessa Baird (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 8,661 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Min kamp 6 (Min kamp, #6) 4.15 avg rating — 7,231 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2) by Karl Ove Knausgård, Karl Ove Knausgaard 4.06 avg rating — 6,698 ratings — published 2021 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring (Seasons Quartet, #3) by Karl Ove Knausgård, Anna Bjerger (Illustrator), Ingvild Burkey (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 5,031 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Karl Ove Knausgård

Min kamp (6 books)
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Karl Ove Knausgård

4.20 avg rating — 120,749 ratings

Morgenstjernen (6 books)
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Karl Ove Knausgård

4.06 avg rating — 32,687 ratings

Årstidsencyklopedien (4 books)
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Karl Ove Knausgård,

Ingvild Burkey (Translator),

Anselm Kiefer (Illustrator)

3.92 avg rating — 20,386 ratings

Quotes by Karl Ove Knausgård (?)

“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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“I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1

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“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, A Man in Love

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The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård

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