My Struggle-author Karl Ove Knausgaard has gotten lots of attention -- especially in Scandinavia, but also in the US and UK -- but his wife, Linda Boström Knausgård, has also been publishing, albeit nothing that's nearly as ... thinly-veiled autobiographical (or as best-selling).
Her Helioskatastrofen just came out from Modernista (see their publicity page) -- and one of the things that struck me about coverage of it is that the few reviews I've looked at -- Josefin Holmström's in Svenska Dagbladet and Lidija Praizovic's in Aftonbladet, for example -- make no mention whatsoever of her famous-writer husband. Okay, maybe here's an instance where he (and their relationship) is so well-known that there's no need to mention it, taken as a given for anyone likely to read the review, but I doubt that US/UK reviewers would be similarly able to avoid the gossipy mention of the much-more-famous author-spouse.
Her Helioskatastrofen just came out from Modernista (see their publicity page) -- and one of the things that struck me about coverage of it is that the few reviews I've looked at -- Josefin Holmström's in Svenska Dagbladet and Lidija Praizovic's in Aftonbladet, for example -- make no mention whatsoever of her famous-writer husband. Okay, maybe here's an instance where he (and their relationship) is so well-known that there's no need to mention it, taken as a given for anyone likely to read the review, but I doubt that US/UK reviewers would be similarly able to avoid the gossipy mention of the much-more-famous author-spouse.