Author Spotlight

Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård’s novel cycle My Struggle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. He has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm, and The School of Night), has been published in thirty-six languages.

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Sentimental Value: Between Trauma and the Sublime

In this powerful drama about family and memory, Joachim Trier explores how the past lives on in us, shapes us, and partly determines who we are and how we feel.

By Karl Ove Knausgård

Essays— May 27, 2026