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Karl Ove Knausgård was born on December 6, 1968 in Norway. He is known for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle. 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. This was the first time in the award's history that a first novel had won.His second novel, A Time for Everything (2004), partly retells certain parts of the Bible, as well as the history of angels on earth. The book won a number of awards, and was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. It was also nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

It was with the Min Kamp books that Knausgård became a household name in Norway, due to the books' large success as well as the controversy they raised. In 2009 Knausgård published My Struggle - First Book, the first volume of a series of six autobiographical novels, which were published in 2009, 2010, and 2011. The Min Kamp books caused significant controversy when they were released, partly because the Norwegian title of the book, Min Kamp, is the same as the Norwegian title of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and partly because some have suggested Knausgård goes too far in exposing the private lives of his friends and family. The books have nevertheless received almost universally favourable reviews.

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