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    I thought my writing too shameful, too feminine, until I read Karl Ove Knausgård | Megan Nolan

    The emotional power of his six-part epic My Struggle gave me permission to write to my strengths
    by Megan Nolan May 04, 2020 3 minutes
    ‘I was interested in what shame could mean to a writer like this.’ Karl Ove Knausgard signs copies at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images

    I first came across Karl Ove Knausgård when he was profiled for the cover story of a 2015 Observer New Review. I was sitting in Ireland in the kitchen of an ex-boyfriend one morning. He scanned the headline, “Writing is a way of getting rid of shame”, and tossed it to me across the breakfast table, saying: “Looks like something for you.”

    I had at that time begun to write essays, which I hoped were literary in style but which felt cripplingly, humiliatingly feminine in their subject matter – unlovely accounts of abortion

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