Books written by Karl Ove Knausgaard

  • 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.

  • Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

    From the always astonishing Karl Ove Knausgaard--a brilliantly unusual book to delight both reading sports fans and the literary world. Bridging the two worlds of soccer and great writing, in...

  • The Morning Star

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an ...

  • In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

    A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. In the Land of the Cyclops is...

  • Summer: (Seasons Quartet 4)

    Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.

  • A Very Scandinavian Christmas: The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time

    This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden; as well as the popular ...

  • La mort d'un père

    Peut-on ressusciter une enfance? Devenu père, Karl Ove Knausgaard se penche sur ce continent englouti.

  • Mon combat (Tome 1) - La mort d'un père

    Peut-on ressusciter une enfance ? Devenu père, Karl Ove Knausgaard se penche sur ce continent englouti.

  • In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

    Accompanied by black-and-white reproductions throughout, these essays illuminate Cindy Sherman's shadowlands, the sublime mystery of Sally Mann's vision, and the serious play of Francesca Woodman.

  • Autumn

    This beautifully illustrated book is a personal encyclopaedia on everything from chewing gum to the stars. Through close observation of the objects and phenomena around him, Karl Ove shows us how vast, unknowable and wondrous the world is.

  • Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

    He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. Home and Away is an unusual soccer book, in which the two authors use soccer and the World Cup in Brazil as the arena for reflections on life and death, art and politics, class and literature.

  • 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, ...

  • 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.

  • My Struggle: Book Six

    Knausgaard includes a long essay on Hitler and Mein Kampf, particularly relevant (if not prescient) in our current global climate of ascending dictatorships.

  • The End: My Struggle: Book 6

    The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the earlier volumes, with Knausgaard facing growing literary acclaim and the often shattering repercussions that came with it.

  • My Struggle: Book 6

    ... Selling his canvases meant Hitler and Hanisch made just enough money to pay for rent and food, though not enough for clothes, and by Hanisch's account Hitler kept his coat on indoors for a period, having a hole in the seat of his trousers ...