It is in connection with the British release of her latest book Oktoberbarn, that Linda Boström Knausgård tells the newspaper about her experiences of having her life portrayed in detail in the six-book-long suite My Fight.

- I have been reconciled with the books today, but in fact was very angry about what he wrote about me, says Linda Boström Knausgård in the interview with The Guardian.

"Can't depict women"

When Min Kamp was written she was still married to Karl Ove Knausgård, and in interviews over the years Linda Boström Knausgård has always defended his artistic right to write about her life as a writer.

Today, three years after the medially-divorced divorce, she holds to that view. But she also describes the personal experience of having her life meticulously presented to hundreds of thousands of readers, including the mental illness she herself writes about in the novels Welcome to America and October.

- I thought the books were good, but on a personal level I've always been upset at how he looked at me. His gaze was so limited, it was as if he did not know me at all.

- Reading the books then felt like a personal loss. Today, I wonder if he's not just one of all these male writers who can't really write about women.

Moves to the UK

Linda Boström Knausgård has previously been awarded the Mari Kandre Prize for the Heliosk disaster, and was nominated for the August Prize for the Growing Up Welcome to America. With the launch of October Children in the UK, she is also moving to the country.

- It's a fresh start. Most of all, I want to be seen as a person and writer in my own right, says Linda Boström Knausgård.

- For several years now people have seen me and thought "That's it, Karl Ove, just that, the bipolar". I want it to change.