Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author, born on December 6, 1968. He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle (Min Kamp). The Wall Street Journal has described him as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations."

Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch. Knausgård has won several prestigious awards, including the 2009 Brage Prize, the 2017 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2019 Swedish Academy Nordic Prize.

He made his literary debut in 1998 with the novel Out of the World, which was a critical and commercial success, earning him the Norwegian Critics’ Prize.