Karl Ove Knausgard
Mon 26 May 2014
Hay Festival
Fictions – Boyhood Island
Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgard talks to Razia Iqbal about his six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle. The winner of this year’s Hay Medal for Prose tells us why he felt compelled to start volume 3 – Boyhood Island – on the subject of death, often considered a taboo in modern-day society.
Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgard talks to Razia Iqbal about his six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle. The winner of this year’s Hay Medal for Prose tells us why he felt compelled to start volume 3 – Boyhood Island – on the subject of death, often considered a taboo in modern-day society.