Description Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is the author of the six-volume, New York Times-bestselling autobiographical series
My Struggle, which has been translated into more than 15 languages.
My Struggle: Book One was a
New Yorker Book of the Year,
Book Two was listed among
The Wall Street Journal’s 2013 Books of the Year, and
Book Three was named a
New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Knausgaard is also the author of the novels
Out of the World and
A Time for Everything. He lives in Sweden with his wife and four children.
Part of
Eat, Drink & Be Literary 2016
Moderated by Deborah Treisman
Deborah Treisman is the fiction editor at
The New Yorker. She is the host of that publication’s award-winning fiction podcast, the editor of the anthology
20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker, and the recipient of the 2012 Maxwell Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction.
Executive Chef: Tsering Nyima
Tsering Nyima joined Great Performances as BAMcafé’s executive chef in 2010. His culinary experience is grounded in French, Indian, New American, German, Austrian, Chinese, and Japanese cuisines. Nyima was born in eastern Tibet and left at age 14 for a life of exile in India, where, at a Buddhist monastery, he learned how to cook. Nearly a decade later, he came to New York and mastered his cooking skills and knowledge under the guidance of Laurent Tourondel (BLT Steak, BLT Burger, Brasserie Ruhlmann), Gary Robins (Moko), Kurt Gutenbrunner (Wallse, Blaue Gans), and Tadeo Mikami (Hatsuhana).
