Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the music he loves, his inability to paint, the Scandinavian authors to watch out for, and the exact number of coffee cups he keeps his writing desk.

Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle, meticulously illustrates the mundane details of the author's life as he grapples with his larger demons.

Writer Karl Ove Knausgaard was on the Lopate Show recently to discuss his book, "My Struggle." He also told us why he has no more secrets -- and about his love of chocolate ice cream

Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses his book My Struggle. Almost ten years have passed since Karl O. Knausgaard's father drank himself to death, and Knausgaard probes into his past, dissecting struggles—great and small—with great candor and vitality.