Linda Boström Knausgård in Conversation with Adam Dalva

Linda Boström Knausgård’s Welcome to America is “a piercing story of a girl who responds to trauma by mustering the most powerful weapon available to her: silence. (…) melodic, mythological, transformative, a testament to literature’s powers…” (Vanity Fair

Knausgård, a Swedish author, poet, and producer of documentaries for national radio, will discuss the novel with the writer and critic, Adam Dalva.

Knausgård’s first novel, The Helios Disaster, was awarded the Mare Kandre Prize and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio Novel Award 2014. Welcome to America, her second novel, was nominated for the prestigious Swedish August Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize.

Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Guardian. He teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University and is a book critic for Guernica Magazine. His best-selling comic book, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in Fall 2018.











When: Thu., Oct. 17, 2019 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Community Bookstore
143 Seventh Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-783-3075
Price: Free
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Linda Boström Knausgård’s Welcome to America is “a piercing story of a girl who responds to trauma by mustering the most powerful weapon available to her: silence. (…) melodic, mythological, transformative, a testament to literature’s powers…” (Vanity Fair

Knausgård, a Swedish author, poet, and producer of documentaries for national radio, will discuss the novel with the writer and critic, Adam Dalva.

Knausgård’s first novel, The Helios Disaster, was awarded the Mare Kandre Prize and shortlisted for the Swedish Radio Novel Award 2014. Welcome to America, her second novel, was nominated for the prestigious Swedish August Prize and the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize.

Adam Dalva’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Guardian. He teaches Creative Writing at Rutgers University and is a book critic for Guernica Magazine. His best-selling comic book, Olivia Twist, was published by Dark Horse in Fall 2018.

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