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Bestselling and critically acclaimed authors talk to Razia Iqbal about their work.

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Talking Books: Talking Books at Hay Festival: Karl Ove Knausgaard

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14/06/2014 GMT

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Talking Books at Hay Festival

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Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit Hay literary festival in Wales.

Razia Iqbal interviews Karl Ove Knausgaard at the Hay Festival and finds out what it took to expose every detail of his life on paper.

Karl Ove Knausgaard is an acclaimed writer in his native Norway. After struggling with fiction he turned to autobiography and the reaction to the result; an unflinching six-volume account of his day-to-day life, has been unprecedented. So far only the first three volumes have been translated, with the third released this year, but his reputation is already soaring in the English speaking world. Razia Iqbal interviews him at the Hay Festival and finds out what it took to expose every detail of his life on paper.

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Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit the Hay literary festival in Wales.

Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit the Hay literary festival in Wales, one of the world’s most prestigious literary gatherings.

Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit the Hay literary festival in Wales, one of the world’s most prestigious literary gatherings. BBC presenter Razia Iqbal interviews international bestselling authors from around the globe looking at what drives their work and concentrating on their literary life story. In this series Razia meets acclaimed Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard and highlight of the Hay Festival, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, among others.

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