‘Narrow-minded’ Sweden hails stage version of acclaimed Norwegian novel

A book by Karl Ove Knausgaard, who criticised the Swedes, has been successfully taken to Stockholm

When director Ole Anders Tandberg was asked to stage My Struggle for Stockholm’s city theatre at the start of this year, his instinct was to refuse.

The six-volume autobiographical novel by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, with its highly personal voice and frequent shifts between memoir and essay, was something no play could do justice to. “My first thought was that it’s impossible. There’s no way,” he said. “The novel, and the amount of thoughts and reflections in it, was too huge. My second thought was, I’d like to give it a try.”

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