My Struggle (Norwegian: Min kamp) is a series of six autobiographical novels written by Karl Ove Knausgård and published between 2009 and 2011.

The books cover his private life and thoughts, and unleashed a media frenzy upon their release, with journalists attempting to track down the mentioned members of his family.

Though categorized as fiction, the books situate Knausgård as the protagonist and his actual relatives as the cast, with their names mostly unchanged.

Knausgård would call his friend and fellow writer Geir Angell Øygarden daily and read the work aloud.

Angell Øygarden eventually listened to 5,000 pages of the novel and proposed the series title, which he felt was perfect.

His brother and mother did not object, but Knausgård's father's family attempted legal intervention and wanted to block publication, calling the novel "a book full of insinuations, untruths, false personal characteristics and disclosures".

[2] Knausgård was scared but fixed some errors, changed some names, removed a single person, and published the book without acquiescing to all requests.

He had been planning to finish the six volumes within the year, preferring to work under harsh deadlines to combat his writer's block.

The book's release began a media frenzy as reporters tracked down the novel's characters, which was simple because his family were the only Knausgårds in Norway.

The title of the series, of both the English translation and the original Norwegian, is a reference to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Knausgård, in interviews, "has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects Mein Kampf to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed an otherwise impossible evil.

[22] The New Republic's Evan Hughes wrote that Knausgård's followers feel like he writes about them, that the book is "like opening someone else's diary and finding your own secrets".

[25] Joshua Rothman notes in his article in The New Yorker that "In previous volumes, we’ve watched a younger Karl Ove struggle to absorb his father’s dark energies.

[26] Frenchculture.org website noted that, even though Knausgård was called the "Norwegian Proust", the first volume sold very few copies in France, probably because the strong French tradition of autofiction makes the book look less original than it appears in the US.

[citation needed] A girlfriend he had for four years, anonymized under the name «Gunvor» in the fifth volume, said to the newspaper Bergens Tidende: "It was as if he said: Now I'm going to punch you in the face.

[33] All six volumes of "My Struggle" were voiced as audiobooks by award-winning actor and narrator Edoardo Ballerini to popular and critical acclaim.

Ballerini's recordings were the subject of feature pieces in The Guardian, "Narrator of 133 Hour Audiobook on His Evolving Art,"[34] the Norwegian magazine Aftenposten, "Knausgaard's American Voice,"[35] and featured prominently in a New York Times profile of the actor titled "The Voice of God... and Knausgaard, Whitman, Machiavelli..."[36] Recorded Books produced the series.

In the 2018 film Private Life, Richard Grimes, played by Paul Giamatti, holds up a copy of My Struggle and says, “Don’t knock denial.