What are the best new books in Korean fiction? How is the process of translating a book into English? And how do you write about a place you have no memory of? This week we sat down with award winning and internationally best-selling author, <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/226642/karl-ove-knausgaard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Karl ove Knausgaard</a> to discuss his latest novel translated into English, The School of Night.<a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457862/the-school-of-night-by-knausgaard-karl-ove/9781787304208" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The School of Night</a> is a Faustian inspired meditation on art and creativity, the 4th novel in The Morning Star series, and the first in the sequence that can be read as a standalone novel.&nbsp;Discover all the books mentioned on this episode: <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/ask-penguin-podcast-zadie-smith/?utm_campaign=PodcastZadieSmith&utm_source=acast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_camteam=penguin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here</a>Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From&nbsp;A Death in the Family&nbsp;to&nbsp;The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star,&nbsp;The Wolves of Eternity,&nbsp;The Third Realm&nbsp;and&nbsp;The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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