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Karl Ove Knausgaard, Paris, France, 2012.
Born in Oslo, Norway, in 1968, Knausgaard’s hair is almost as legendary as his six-volume, 3,600-page autobiography, My Struggle. He has a long silver mane that defies the need for a comb. His locks spiral and sit where they want in a devil-may-care fashion—exactly the way a rock star’s might look, windswept in precisely the most riotous way. Knausgaard has been called the Proust of Norway and reportedly wrote twenty pages a day when he was putting My Struggle together. It’s a long list of his life, and the absorbingly banal detail he captures has become cult reading.