* Karl Ove Knausgaard - The Wolves of Eternity and other works (17 books)

KARL OVE KNAUSGÅRD (b. 1968) is a Norwegian writer whose six-volume autobiographical novel, MY STRUGGLE (2009–11), became a runaway bestseller in Norway and captivated a large and growing number of English-language readers.  Some consider him the greatest Norwegian writer since playwright Henrik Ibsen.  His deliberately prolix and minutely detailed style has drawn comparison to that of Marcel Proust in À la recherche du temps perdu.

Knausgård's first novel, OUT OF THE WORLD (1998), tells the story of a 30-something teacher who falls in love with one of his 13-year-old students.  It became the first debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics' Prize.  His second book, A TIME FOR EVERYTHING (2004), was considerably stranger and more complex, about a man who decides to write a book about the history of angels.

After the publication of that book, Knausgård, by his own account, began to be bored by fiction, particularly the presentation of life as a neat package carefully organized.  He determined not only to tell the story of his own life — without hiding behind a character's persona — but also to examine it in excruciating detail in an attempt "to find meaning in an ordinary life."  All this he began to do, using the real names of the people in his life and writing his thoughts uncensored, alternating between essayistic meditations and examinations of the minutiae of child rearing and other domestic activities.

The six-volume MY STRUGGLE series of autobiographical novels (2009–11) made Knausgård a household name in Norway.  Totaling over 3,500 pages, the books were hugely successful.  They were also controversial, in part because the Norwegian title of the series (Min Kamp) is the same as the Norwegian title of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and partly because some have suggested Knausgård goes too far in exposing the private lives of his friends and family—including his father, ex-wife, uncle, and grandmother.  The books nevertheless received almost universally favorable reviews.  Many readers became hopelessly hooked, caught in their brooding and revelatory rhythms, including James Wood of The New Yorker who wrote "[t]here is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgård's book: even when I was bored, I was interested."

Between 2015 and 2016, Knausgård published his "Seasons Quartet," a series of four books entitled AUTUMN, WINTER, SPRING, and SUMMER.  These books are also autobiographical in nature, consisting of diary excerpts, letters, and other personal materials.

Among Knausgård's other books are THE MORNING STAR (2020), a horror-infused novel focusing on nine people who, following the foreboding appearance of a new star in the sky, contend with various problems.  The sequel, THE WOLVES OF ETERNITY (2021), is Knausgaard's most recent work to appear in English.

He also wrote such nonfiction works as SO MUCH LONGING IN SO LITTLE SPACE (2017), on the art of Edvard Munch, and a collection of essays, IN THE LAND OF THE CYCLOPS (2021).


The following books are in ePub format:

== MY STRUGGLE [Min Kamp] ==

* My Struggle, Book 1: A Death in the Family (FSG, 2013)
* My Struggle, Book 2: A Man in Love (FSG, 2014)
* My Struggle, Book 3: Boyhood (FSG, 2015)
* My Struggle, Book 4: Dancing in the Dark (FSG, 2015)
* My Struggle, Book 5: Some Rain Must Fall (FSG, 2016)
* My Struggle, Book 6: The End (FSG, 2019)

== OTHER FICTION ==

* A Time for Everything (Archipelago, 2009)
* Autumn (Penguin, 2019)
* Fatherhood (Vintage Minis, 2017)
* Spring (Penguin, 2019)
* Summer (Penguin, 2019)
* Winter (Penguin, 2019)
* The Wolves of Eternity (Penguin, 2023)

== NON-FICTION ==

* Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game [with F. Ekelund] (FSG, 2017)
* In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays (FSG, 2023)
* Inadvertent [Why I Write] (Yale, 2018)
* So Much Longing in So Little Space: Art of Edvard Munch (Penguin, 2019)


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