His second novel, A Time for Everything (2004), partly retells certain parts of the Bible as well as the history of angels on earth. This was the first time in the award's history that a debut novel had won. Knausgård made his publishing debut in 1998 with the novel Out of the World, for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. He eventually moved to Stockholm and published his first novel in 1998. He then held various jobs, including teaching high school in northern Norway, selling cassettes, working in a psychiatric hospital and on an oil platform, while trying to become a writer. He has won the 2009 Brage Prize, 2017 Jerusalem Prize, and 2019 Swedish Academy Nordic Prize.īorn in Oslo, Knausgård was raised on Tromøya in Arendal and in Kristiansand, and studied arts and literature at the University of Bergen. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle ( Min Kamp). Karl Ove Knausgård ( Norwegian: born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author.
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