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A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgard

International Dublin · 2014 · Shortlist
Farrar, Straus and GirouxLiterary FictionISBN 9780374534141

Award History

AwardYearStatus
International Dublin Literary Award2014Shortlist

About This Book

Karl Ove Knausgård's autobiographical first volume of My Struggle, translated from Norwegian by Don Bartlett, meditates on his father's death and his own relationships in a mode of radical, unflinching confessional narrative. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

About the Author

Karl Ove Knausgård (born December 6, 1968, in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian author renowned for his six-volume autobiographical novel series My Struggle (Min kamp, 2009–2011), which became a massive bestseller and literary sensation, alongside earlier works like his debut Out of the World (1998) and A Time for Everything (2004). His major achievements include the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (1998, first for a debut novel), Brage Prize (2009), Jerusalem Prize (2017), and Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (2019), establishing him as one of the 21st century's greatest literary figures.

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