Siri Hustvedt
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Hustvedt at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
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| Born |
February 19, 1955 Northfield, Minnesota |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A. in history, Ph.D. in English |
| Alma mater | St. Olaf College and Columbia University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | Since 1983 |
| Known for | Novels, poetry, short stories |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Auster |
| Children | Sophie Auster |
| Parent(s) | Lloyd Hustvedt and Ester Vegan |
| Website | www.sirihustvedt.net |
Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, six novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include: The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), and The Blazing World (2014). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Siri Hustvedt attended public school in her hometown Northfield, Minnesota and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973. Hustvedt graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in History in 1977. She moved to New York City to attend Columbia University as a graduate student in 1978. Her first published work was a poem in The Paris Review.
A small collection of poems, Reading to You, appeared in 1982 with Station Hill Press.
She completed her PhD in English at Columbia in 1986. Her dissertation on Charles Dickens, Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, is an exploration of language and identity in the novel, with particular emphasis on Dickens’ metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a narrative, dialogical conception of self. She refers in the dissertation to sources that would influence and reappear in her later writing, including the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Emile Benveniste, Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Mary Douglas, Paul Ricoeur, and Julia Kristeva.
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