Karl Ove Knausgaard

Books on prize lists

• Nattskolen

  In English

  SaveThe School of Night to read later

  National Book Award 2026 · Finalist

  The School of Night

  Nattskolen

  Karl Ove Knausgaard · 55 when first published

  Novel · 512 pages · Morgenstjernen, book 4

  Translated by Martin Aitken

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1985 an ambitious young Norwegian, Kristian Hadeland, moves to London to study photography, where he falls in with an older Dutchman obsessed with technology.

• Min kamp. Første bok

  In English

  SaveMy Struggle: Book One to read later

  Brage 2009 · ★ Winner

  My Struggle: Book One

  Min kamp. Første bok

  Karl Ove Knausgaard · 41 when first published

  Novel · 434 pages · Autofiction, Family · Min kamp, book 1

  AIAI-generated summary:The book opens with a dizzying account of death and moves on to a writer’s struggle to master his life, himself and his ambitions for his writing, seeking out what is vulnerable and embarrassing.