Linda Boström Knausgård

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Linda Boström Knausgård (born October 15, 1972 in Boo , Sweden ) is a Swedish poet and author.

life and work

Linda Boström Knausgård is the daughter of actress Ingrid Boström. Like her alcoholic father, she suffers from a bipolar disorder , which she was diagnosed with at the age of 26 and which she discussed in a documentary for the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio . In 2007 she married the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård , who described family life with their four children in detail in his successful novel series Min Kamp (literally: Mein Kampf ). The couple announced their impending divorce in 2016. In 2020, in an interview with the British weekly newspaper The Observer, she admitted that at the time she was very angry about the portrayals of her person in his books (“ I have made my peace with the books now but in reality I was so angry about what he wrote “ ); his view of her was very limited (" His view of me was so limited, he saw only what he wanted to see." ). Boström Knausgård now lives in London with her children.

In 1998, Boström Knausgård published her first work, the volume of poetry Gör mig comfortably för såret , which has already received positive reviews. She made her breakthrough in Sweden in 2011 with the short story collection Grand Mal . In 2013, Boström Knausgård published her first novel entitled Helioskatastrofen . It wasn't until her second novel Välkommen till Amerika (German: Willkommen in Amerika ) from 2016 that she finally made her international breakthrough. She was nominated for the prestigious Swedish August Prize . So far it is her only book that has been translated into German. In August 2019 her second novel Oktoberbarn was published in Sweden , which contains autobiographical elements and deals with the separation from her husband and the author's experiences with electroshock therapy in psychiatry .

Publications

  • Gör mig cozy för såret , 1998.
  • Grand Mal , 2011.
  • Helioskatastrofen , 2013.
  • Välkommen till Amerika , 2016.
    • Welcome to America . Translation into German by Verena Reichel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-89561-123-0 .
  • Oktoberbarn , 2019.

proof

  1. ↑ Sune Johannesson: Skrivandets dröm lever i Glemmingebro. In: Ystads Allehanda. January 15, 2013, accessed February 19, 2019 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Barbara Fellgiebel: Interview with Linda Boström Knausgård: »I only feel free when I write«. In: Literaturcafe. February 23, 2018, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  3. ^ Maria Schottenius: Hennes kamp är explosiv. In: Dagens Nyheter. May 27, 2013, Retrieved February 19, 2019 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ a b c d Lisa O'Kelly: Linda Boström Knausgård: 'I would like to be seen as a person and author in my own right'. In: The Guardian. May 10, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020 (UK English).
  5. ↑ Edelgard Abenstein: Linda Boström Knausgård: "Welcome to America" ​​- With poetic tenderness of tone. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. August 8, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Beatrice von Matt: Linda Boström Knausgård's children's story is everything that the novels of her ex-husband Karl Ove are not: short, tight, deep. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 24, 2018, accessed March 22, 2019 .
  7. ^ SvD Kultur Editor: Paret Knausgård skiljer sig. In: Svenska Dagbladet. November 25, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2019 (Swedish).
  8. ↑ Katy Waldman: Linda Boström Knausgård's Post “Struggle” IKEA Trip. In: The New Yorker. December 30, 2019, accessed June 11, 2020 (American English).
  9. ↑ Dessa titlar är nominerade till Augustpriset 2016. In: Augustpriset. October 24, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2019 (Swedish).
  10. ^ Wolfgang Schütz: Knausgård versus Knausgård. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. November 20, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
  11. ^ Jens Mattern: Sweden: Caring electrical surges in the brain. In: Telepolis. September 19, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Boström Knausgård, Linda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Boo (Sweden)