Read about Karl Ove Knausgaard in The New York Times Blog
You can read about Karl Ove Knausgaard and the controversy surrounding My Struggle here.
Lauded by critics as a literary feat (the first volume appeared in English last summer), the book played less well among Knausgaard’s own family members. Part fiction, part memoir, “Min Kamp,” or “My Struggle” as it is known in English, included not just unflinching descriptions of his father’s alcoholism and grandmother’s incontinence but also revealing details about his ex- and his current wife.