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From: Intelligence Squared To: j leevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Karl Ove Knausgaard: The alchemist of the ordinary Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:52:07 +0000 ib„tnteingen e urvearu to a menu V ICW ID OLOWJC1 4 IIw gyarl Ove Knausgaard: The alchemist of the ordinary Thursday 29th Oct. 7pm. RIBA Speaker Critics are calling it *the most significant literary enterprise of our Karl Ove Knausgaard times'. Using the canvas of his own life, Karl Ove Knausgaard One of the most widely acclaimed novelists working today. His has taken the seemingly ordinary events of his existence — the autobiographical novel series My Struggle is an international bullying alcoholic father, the marriages, the raising of his children phenomenon that has been published in over 30 languages, — and has transformed the stuff of everyday life into a worldwide selling in excess of 600,000 copies in his native Norway alone. literary phenomenon. His bestselling series of autobiographical His first novel, Out of This World (1998), was the first debut novel novels, My Struggle, has been described as 'a work of genius'. ever to win The Norwegian Critics' Prize. His second novel, A Critics trip over themselves to explain his brilliance. Fellow Time for Everything (2004), was published in English in 2009 and novelists can't get enough of him. 'I just read 200 pages and I longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind.' In 2015, he was awarded Germany's prestigious Welt- Zadie Smith tweeted. Literaturpreis. How did Knausgaard fashion the ordinary events of his life into something so utterly compelling and of such universal Chair significance? What does it say about our voyeuristic times that the intimate details of his life have proven so addictively gripping? Robert Collins Former deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times, where he On October 29. Karl Ove Knausgaard comes to the Intelligence founded and hosted the Sunday Times Literary Salon. He has Squared stage for an exclusive UK appearance. Joining him on chaired discussions with countless authors, including Jonathan stage will be Intelligence Squared's very own Robert Collins, Franzen, Edward St Aubyn. David Nicholls and Ian McEwan. As a former deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times, who will ask critic and interviewer, he has written on books and the arts for the how — by a remarkable process of literary alchemy — Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the FT. the Observer and the Knausgaard has turned the material of his own life into a global Spectator. He was named PPC Journalist of the Year in 2014. sensation. IIr Praise for Karl Ove Knausgaard 'It has strong claim to be the great literary event of the 21st century.'— The Observer 'Fires every nerve ending while summoning in the reader the sheer sense of how amazing it is to be alive'. — Jeffrey Eugenides 'A living hero who landed on greatness by abandoning every typical literary feint, an emperor whose nakedness surpasses royal finery.'— Jonathan Lethem EFTA00640528  rpUOo w ounacioua Intelligence Squared Is proudly supported by its media partner VANITY FAIR It Intelligence' Ltd , Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London WI1 3LQ Copyright Intelligence' Ltd. All rights reserved. EFTA00640529