The School of Night

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

A young Norwegian, Kristian Hadeland, moves to London to study photography and falls in with an enigmatic Dutch artist and a woman staging Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Years later, a New York retrospective brings success and the return of his past. Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. Finalist, 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.