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Evan Hughes Profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard for The New Republic

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Karl Ove Knausgaard, Norwegian author of the My Struggle series, received a large profile by Evan Hughes in The New Republic. Most exciting to our ears are the hints of a new book in the works:

Before I left, Knausgaard told me something unexpected. “I shouldn’t talk about this,” he said, shaking his head and smiling a little. In interviews, Knausgaard has insisted that he meant what he wrote in the last line of his series: that he is through writing novels. But he told me he is working on a new one. Amid all the turmoil over My Struggle, now he can “sit down and be somewhere else, do something else,” and that carries him forward. Influenced by Borges and Calvino, the new book will have elements of the fantastical, the otherworldly. It won’t be about his life at all.

Read the full profile here.

Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation with Nicole Krauss at the Community Bookstore

Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Nicole Krauss at Brooklyn’s own Community Bookstore!

Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything (Archipelago) was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. 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 lives in Sweden with his wife and three children.

Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of America’s most important novelists.” She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Best known for her novels Man Walks into a Room, The History of Love, and Great House, Krauss’ fiction has been published inThe New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and the 2003 edition of Best American Short Stories. Her novels have been translated into 35 languages.

Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation with Nicole Krauss at the Community Bookstore

Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation with Nicole Krauss at Brooklyn’s own Community Bookstore!

Karl Ove Knausgaard was born in Norway in 1968. His debut novel Out of This World won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 2004 and his A Time for Everything (Archipelago) was a finalist for the Nordic Council Prize. 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 lives in Sweden with his wife and three children.

Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of America’s most important novelists.” She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Best known for her novels Man Walks into a Room, The History of Love, and Great House, Krauss’ fiction has been published inThe New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and the 2003 edition of Best American Short Stories. Her novels have been translated into 35 languages.

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"Completely Without Dignity": the Paris Review Interviews Karl Ove Knausgaard

Read an interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard and The Paris Review‘s Jesse Barron here.

 

Jesse Barron: Did the writing of Min Kamp give you what you were hoping for?

Knausgaard: I can’t speak for other writers, but I write to create something that is better than myself, I think that’s the deepest motivation, and it is so because I’m full of self-loathing and shame. Writing doesn’t make me a better person, nor a wiser and happier one, but the writing, the text, the novel, is a creation of something outside of the self, an object, kind of neutralized by the objectivity of literature and form; the temper, the voice, the style; all in it is carefully constructed and controlled. This is writing for me: a cold hand on a warm forehead.