Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård (2011)

Karl Ove Knausgård (2010)

Karl Ove Knausgård [ˈkɑːɭ ˈuːvə ˈknæʉsˌgɔːɾ] (born December 6, 1968 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian writer .

Life

Karl Ove Knausgård is the son of a nurse and a teacher and grew up with an older brother on the island of Tromøy near Arendal and in Kristiansand . He studied art history and literature at the University of Bergen . His literary debut Ute av verden received the Norwegian Critics' Awards in 1998 . This was the first time that an author's first work was honored with the award. In 2004 the novel En tid for alt followed , which was nominated for the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and is available in German translation under the title Alles hat seine Zeit .

In 2009 Knausgård published the first three of his six volumes, autobiographical novel cycle Min Kamp (literally: Mein Kampf ). The publication of the first volume, which addresses the difficult relationship with his father and combines essayistic passages with memories of childhood and youth, caused a sensation in Norway and sparked heated discussions. The book became a bestseller and was by the readers of the newspaper Morgenbladet for Book of the Year chosen. Knausgård received the most important literary prize in his home country, the Brageprisen . Volumes four and five appeared in 2010, the sixth and final volume was published in 2011. In 2011 the first volume was published under the title Die in Deutsch. The Luchterhand literature publisher wisely refrained from using the entire title of the six-part for the German edition. The final volume Fighting was published in May 2017.

In 2010 Knausgård founded the small Pelikan publishing house with the first income from his Min Kamp cycle, in which he publishes books by Christian Kracht and Peter Handke in Norwegian, among others .

His increasing international success gave him the opportunity to write for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker . His texts include travel reports, a confrontation with the Norwegian terrorist Breivik , observations during a brain operation, an essay about his life as a dog owner and a review of Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission . Published and previously unpublished essays from 1996–2013 also appear in the collection Das Amerika der Seele, which was published in German in 2016 .

In 2015 and 2016, Knausgård published two volumes of the season tetralogy , each of which is dedicated to one of his children and was also published in German in the following years. He himself sees the books as a “personal encyclopedia of things from my immediate environment”, in which he describes everyday objects in letters to his still unborn youngest daughter.

In 2017 Knausgård curated an exhibition with pictures by Edvard Munch at the Munch Museum in Oslo .

Since 2007 Knausgård was married to the poet and novelist Linda Boström Knausgård (* 1972), daughter of the Swedish actress Ingrid Boström, for the second time . The family lived with the common children, three daughters and one son, first in Malmo , from 2011 in Glemmingebro in Skåne Österlen . In November 2016, Linda Boström announced the impending divorce. Today he lives in London and is married to the publishing manager Michal Shavit. The couple have one son.

Quotes

"In life it is very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer it is very good."

plant

• 1998: Ute av verden .
• 2004: Entid for alt .
  • Everything has its time (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf ), Luchterhand, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-87264-3 .
• 2009: Min kamp. Første bok .
  • Die (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-630-87351-0 .
• 2009: Min kamp. Andre bok .
  • Lieben (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-630-87370-1 .
• 2009: Min kamp. Tredje bok .
  • Playing (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87412-8 .
• 2010: Min kamp. Fjerde bok .
  • Life (from the Norwegian by Ulrich Sonnenberg ), Luchterhand, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87413-5 .
• 2010: Min kamp. Femte bok .
  • Dreaming (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87414-2 .
• 2011: Min kamp. Sjette bok .
  • Fighting (from Norwegian by Paul Berf and Ulrich Sonnenberg), Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87415-9 .
• 2013: Sjelens America: tekster 1996–2013 .
  • The America of the Soul (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf and Ulrich Sonnenberg), Luchterhand, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87455-5 .
• 2014: Hjemme / Borte (with Fredrik Ekelund).
  • No home game (from the Norwegian by Ulrich Sonnenberg), btb, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-71563-3 .
• 2015: Om høsten .
  • Im Herbst (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87514-9 .
• 2015: Om vinteren .
  • Im Winter (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-630-87515-6 .
• 2016: Om våren .
  • In spring (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87512-5 .
• 2016: Om summers .
  • In the summer (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-630-87513-2 .
• 2017: Så mye lengsel på så liten flate. En bok om Edvard Munch's pictures .
  • So much longing in such a small area. Edvard Munch and his pictures (from the Norwegian by Paul Berf), Luchterhand, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-630-87589-7 .
• 2019: Fuglene under heaven .

Awards

• 1998 - Critic prizes for Ute av verden
• 1999 - Bjørnson scholarship for Ute av verden
• 2004 - The P2 listener's novel prize for Entid for alt
• 2005 - Sørlandets litteraturpris for Entid for alt
• 2009 - Brageprisen for Min kamp (1st volume)
• 2009 - Prize of the P2 audience for Min kamp (1st volume)
• 2010 - Sørlandets litteraturpris for Min kamp (1st to 3rd volume)
• 2011 - Neshornet, culture award of the daily newspaper Klasskampen
• 2011 - Gyldendal Prizes
• 2012 - Aust-Agder Province Culture Prize
• 2015 - World Literature Prize
• 2017 - Jerusalem Prize
• 2017 - Austrian State Prize for European Literature
• 2019 - Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy
• 2019 - Tuebingen Poetics Lecturer
• 2020 - Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize

Web links

Commons : Karl Ove Knausgård  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Karl Ove Knausgård in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Ove Knausgård in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Karl Ove Knausgård at perlentaucher.de
• Bibliography on Karl Ove Knausgård (Norwegian; PDF; 871 kB)
• Author portrait Luchterhand literary publisher
• Writing without pleasing , Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 8, 2011
• Audio recordings: Karl Ove Knausgård in reading and conversation for listening and downloading on Lesungen.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ten books shortlisted for the 2014 Award ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ His fight review, Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 30, 2011
3. ↑ Noe å snakke om Morgenbladet, January, 15 of 2010.
4. ↑ Ijoma Mangold: The Decelerator Time, July 3, 2014.
5. ↑ Om oss. Retrieved February 19, 2019 (Norwegian Bokmål). 
6. ↑ Richard Kämmerlings: Karl Ove Knausgårds Jahreszeiten cycle tells of depression and happiness . May 31, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed February 19, 2019]).
7. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgaard: My Saga, Part 1 . In: The New York Times . February 25, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 19, 2019]).
8. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgaard: A Literary Road Trip Into the Heart of Russia . In: The New York Times . February 14, 2018, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 19, 2019]).
9. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgaard: Anders Breivik's Inexplicable Crime . May 18, 2015, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed February 19, 2019]).
10. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery . In: The New York Times . December 30, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 19, 2019]).
11. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgaard: The Trouble with Dogs for a Writer . August 18, 2018, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed February 19, 2019]).
12. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgaard: Michel Houellebecq's 'Submission' . In: The New York Times . November 2, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 19, 2019]).
13. ↑ Peter Praschl: Karl Ove Knausgårds Essays: Gut without charm . November 13, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed February 19, 2019]).
14. ↑ Knausgårds "The America of the Soul" - From the Heaven of Fiction. Retrieved on February 19, 2019 (German). 
15. ↑ Silke Scheuermann: Knausgårds Jahreszeiten cycle: His struggle, their struggles and happiness in itself . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 19, 2019]).
16. ↑ Burkhard Müller: Amazing things about the badger . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed February 19, 2019]).
17. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgård: No "scream" obstructs the view - derStandard.de. Retrieved February 19, 2019 (Austrian German). 
18. ↑ Marthe Berg: Var redd datteren var død. In: VG . April 29, 2014, accessed June 10, 2014 (Norwegian). 
19. ↑ Paret Knausgård skiljer sig. In: SvD . November 25, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2017 (Swedish). 
20. ^ Karl Ove Knausgård: "Om du ska skriva om livet såste du bejaka kaoset". October 28, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 (sv-SE). 
21. ↑ Quotable rate. Retrieved August 11, 2019 . 
22. ↑ Caroline Trump. «Se på fuglene». Class fights . 2019-05-18. P. 19
23. ^ Jerusalem International Book Fair. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 3, 2017 ; accessed on June 30, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ^ Svenska Akademiens nordiska pris 2019. Accessed on April 3, 2019 (Swedish). 
25. ↑ Karl Ove Knausgård and Judith Schalansky at the Tübingen Poetics Lecturer 2019. In: Universität Tübingen. August 15, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Christian Gampert: Poetics Lecture in Tübingen - Knausgard: "Writers don't know what they're doing!" In: Deutschlandfunk. December 3, 2019, accessed on December 7, 2019 (German). 
27. ^ Karl Ove Knausgård - Andersen Award. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .