We’re pleased to announce that Karl Ove Knausgaard will appear in conversation with Ben Lerner at The POWERHOUSE ARENA in Brooklyn on May 7! A book signing will follow. Read more here.

Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize and  A Time for Everything was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. My Struggle: Book One was a New Yorker Book of the Year and Book Two was listed among the Wall Street Journal’s 2013 Books of the Year. In 2014, Book Three was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. My Struggle is a New York Times Best Seller and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Knausgaard lives in Sweden with his wife and four children.

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, a Howard Foundation Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie for the German translation of The Lichtenberg Figures. His novels include Leaving the Atocha Station and  10:04. Leaving the Atocha Station won The Believer Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic, among many others.  His recent essays and criticism can be found in Art in America, boundary 2, Frieze, Harper’s and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is  a professor of English at Brooklyn College.

Read Ben Lerner’s review of My Struggle: Book Three for The London Review of Books.