Karl Ove Knausgård to receive the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award 2022 at a ceremony next Fall
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The Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård will be the seventh overall and the first Nordic recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award as he will receive the 2022 edition of the prestigious award. The literature award that has been postponed due to COVID-19, has previously been awarded to Paulo Coelho, J.K. Rowling, Isabel Allende, Sir Salman Rushdie, Har