''The Morning Star'' ( no, Morgenstjernen) is a novel by the Norwegian author

Karl Ove Knausgård Karl Ove Knausgård (; born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled ''My Struggle'' (''Min Kamp''). Since the completion of the ''My Struggle'' series in 2011, he has also publis ...

, published in 2020.Morgenstjernen
Forlaget Oktober (in Norwegian) The novel is the story of a number of people's everyday life in

Sørlandet Southern Norway ( no, Sørlandet; lit. "The Southland") is the geographical List of regions of Norway, region (''landsdel'') along the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway. The region is an informal description since it does not have any govern ...

and

Vestlandet Western Norway ( nb, Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; nn, Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway. It consists of the counties Rogaland, Vestland, and Møre og Romsdal. The region has no official or political-administrative ...

while an extraordinarily bright and large star suddenly appears in the sky. It was Knausgård's first major novel after his autobiographical ''

My Struggle (; ''My Struggle'' or ''My Battle'') is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Ge ...

'' series. Knausgård said that a main idea of the novel was to depict how reality and the same events is perceived differently by different people.Knausgård skrev ferdig ny roman under lockdown i London
VG 15 May 2020 (in Norwegian) The Norwegian publisher described it as "a novel about what we do not understand, about great drama seen through the limited lens of little lives. But first and foremost, it is a novel about what happens when the dark forces in the world are set free." ''Morgenstjernen'' was published 18 September 2020 in Norway, in November 2020 in Denmark and in early 2021 in Sweden (as ''Morgonstjärnan'') to great critical acclaim in all countries. It was nominated to the Norwegian

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in 2020. The novel was sold in advance to fifteen countries. An English translation with the title ''The Morning Star'' was published by

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in September 2021.The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Penguin Random House

References

2020 novels Novels by Karl Ove Knausgård Novels set in Norway Forlaget Oktober books 21st-century Norwegian novels {{2020s-novel-stub