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Karl Ove Knausgaard

4 Extra Debut. Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about 'A Death in the Family', volume one of his remarkable memoirs 'My Struggle'.

Norwegian writer, Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about 'A Death in the Family', volume one of his remarkable series of memoirs 'My Struggle'.

Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and dangerously unpredictable father, and then his bewilderment and grief on his father's death. Becoming a father himself, he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature.

A Death in the Family is an exploration of the author's past from which emerges a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives.

First broadcast on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service in 2017.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 22 Jan 2017 03:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 21 Jan 2017 08:00
  • Sat 21 Jan 2017 15:00
  • Sun 22 Jan 2017 03:00