Karl Ove Knausgaard will be reading from My Struggle: Book Three at Elliott Bay Book Company!

For My Struggle, Knausgaard received the Brage Award in 2009 (for Book One), the 2010 Book of the Year Prize in Morgenbladet, and the P2 Listeners’ Prize. It is also a finalist for The Believer Fiction Prize. My Struggle has been translated into more than fifteen languages and was listed among the 2013 Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal.

“Knausgaard’s artistic achievement … shows us, by the route of life, that there is no story, and in so doing he finds, at last, authenticity. For that alone, this deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.”
—The Guardian

“Beautifully rendered and, at times, painfully observant, his book does a superlative job of finding that ‘inner core of human existence.’” 
—The Wall Street Journal

A living hero who landed on greatness by abandoning every typical literary feint, an emperor whose nakedness surpasses royal finery. I can’t wait for the translator to finish the last three volumes. 
— Jonathan Letham