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Lese, skrive (Forlaget Oktober)
Series · 2 books · 2018

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Hjemløsheten

2018

I serien Lese, skrive inviterer Forlaget Oktober utvalgte forfattere til å skrive om lesing og skriving. Enkelte tekster kan være oversatt eller utgitt i andre sammenhenger. Felles for alle tekstene i serien er at de sier noe vesentlig og særegent om det å skrive, det å lese. De to første bøkene i denne serien er Ingrid Z. Aanestad: Kva hender i romanen? og Terje Holtet Larsen: Hjemløsheten. Terje Holtet Larsen reflekterer over litteraturens plass i hans eget liv og enkelte forfatteres motstand mot å dikte opp et jeg, og hvor lett det kan være å la seg forlede til å tro at sannheten kan formidles direkte, mens det litterære språket finner sine egne veier og sine egne sannheter. Han skriver om skriving i lys av barndom og oppvekst, om egne leseopplevelser i møte med Jean-Paul Sartre, Kurt Vonnegut og Patrick Modiano, om tilhørighet og hjemløshet og om å nærme seg litteraturen utenfra.
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Inadvertent

2018

The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture given by the event’s keynote speaker. The series launched in 2017 with the release of Devotion, by renowned musician, artist, and author Patti Smith. This new volume is by internationally best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, and future editions will come from Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als and poet-playwright Elizabeth Alexander, who recited her poetry at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.

Authors

Karl Ove Knausgard
Karl Ove Knausgard
Author · 28 books

Nominated to the 2004 Nordic Council’s Literature Prize & awarded the 2004 Norwegian Critics’ Prize. Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968) made his literary debut in 1998 with the widely acclaimed novel Out of the World, which was a great critical and commercial success and won him, as the first debut novel ever, The Norwegian Critics' Prize. He then went on to write six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle (Min Kamp), which have become a publication phenomenon in his native Norway as well as the world over.

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