Books written by Karl Ove Knausgaard

  • A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël

    In this collection, classic tales from Hans Christian Andersen and Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlof blend with modern day stories from Karl Ove Knausgaard and Vigdis Hjorth.

  • Edvard Munch Between the Clock and the Bed

    For their unwavering support and enthusiasm, we are most grateful to Neal Benezra, Helen and Charles Schwab Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; ...

  • Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

    There was Zadie Smith and her husband Nick Laird, the Northern Irish author, and Katie Kitamura and her husband Hari Kunzru. Zadie is British, her mother is Jamaican and her father English, Katie is American with Japanese parents, ...

  • My Struggle

    A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by ...

  • My Struggle

    Book 4 of "A six-volume work of fiction by the Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgaard"--

  • A Death in the Family

    In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and ...

  • Summer

    Short Trousers I am wearing short trousers today, they are moss green and reach to just above my knees, ... army green it no longer sounds like I am dressed in the outfit of a ten-year-old, more like a young man in his early twenties ...

  • The Morning Star: A Novel

    A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 "Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times The international bestseller from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning ...

  • Inadvertent

    The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard “Why I Write” may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has ...

  • A Time for Everything

    Stretching from the Garden of Eden to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines key allegorical encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their ...

  • Summer

    The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original ...

  • So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch

    A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream In So Much Longing in So Little Space, ...

  • Edvard Munch: Love and Angst

    A remarkable examinationof Edvard Munch's prints,which were central tohis creative processand established hisreputation as an artist.

  • Spring

    Utterly gripping and brilliantly rendered in Knausgaard’s famously sensitive, pensive, and honest style, Spring is the account of a shocking and heartbreaking familial trauma and the emotional epicenter of this singular literary series.

  • My Struggle

    "English translation originally published in 2014 by Harvill Secker, an imprint of Random House, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

  • My Struggle

    An autobiographical novel focuses on a young man trying to make sense of his place in the disjointed world that surrounds him.

  • Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5

    An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available...

  • The End: My Struggle Book 6

    From the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian). * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre ...

  • Autumn

    The New York Times bestseller. "This book is full of wonders...Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard’s patient, admiring gaze.

  • Out of the World

    Out of the World is Karl Ove Knausgaard's award-winning debut novel. 26-year-old Henrik Vankel works as a teacher in northern Norway.