Linda Boström Knausgård
Linda Boström Knausgård (born 15 October 1972 in Boo, Sweden) is a Swedish author and poet. She debuted in 1998 with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret. Her critical breakthrough came in 2011 with the short-story collection Grand Mal. Her first novel, Helioskatastrofen, was released in 2013.[1][2]
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Literary career[]
Boström Knausgård debuted in 1998 with the poetry collection Gör mig behaglig för såret.[1][2] Her breakthrough came in 2011 with the short-story collection Grand Mal which consists of twenty short, intense and tight prose texts in a dark mode.[1] Boström Knausgård suffers from a bipolar disorder. Her disorder was the subject of a radio documentary, titled Jag skulle kunna vara USA:s president, which she produced for Sveriges Radio in 2005.[1] In 2013, her third book, the novel Helioskatastrofen, was released. In January 2013 she began writing chronicles for the regional newspaper .[3]
Personal life[]
Boström Knausgård was married to the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård until November 2016. They lived in the Österlen-region in southeastern Sweden and have four children.[1] Linda Boström Knausgård is the daughter of actress .[3]
Bibliography[]
- 1998: Gör mig behaglig för såret
- 2011: Grand Mal
- 2013: Helioskatastrofen
- 2015: The Helios Disaster (in English translation by Rachel Willson-Broyles)
- 2016: Välkommen til Amerika
- 2019: Oktoberbarn
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e (September 5, 2011). "Hennes kamp är explosiv". Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on May 27, 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Johansson, Arne (August 17, 1998). "Naket, säkert och utan åthävor". Aftonbladet.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Johannesson, Sune (January 15, 2013). "Skrivandets dröm lever i Glemmingebro". . Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- 1972 births
- Living people
- People from Nacka Municipality
- Swedish women short story writers
- Swedish short story writers
- Writers from Uppland
- Swedish poets
- Swedish women poets
- Swedish women novelists