1. Siri Hustvedt was born on February 19,1955 and is an American novelist and essayist.
20 Facts About Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt's books include The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros, The Sorrows of an American, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, The Summer Without Men, Living, Thinking, Looking, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future.
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Siri Hustvedt's work has been translated into over thirty languages.
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Siri Hustvedt attended public school in her hometown, Northfield, Minnesota, and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973.
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Siri Hustvedt started writing at 13 after a family trip to Reykjavik, where she read various works of classic literature.
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Siri Hustvedt moved to New York City to attend Columbia University as a graduate student in 1978.
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Siri Hustvedt's first published work was a poem in The Paris Review.
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Siri Hustvedt lived in poverty during her college years, and resorted to an emergency loan from the university to survive.
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Siri Hustvedt completed her PhD in English at Columbia in 1986.
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Siri Hustvedt's 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's metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a narrative, dialogical conception of self.
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Siri Hustvedt gave the third annual Schelling lecture on aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
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Siri Hustvedt has given talks at the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and published a volume of essays on painting: Mysteries of the Rectangle.
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Siri Hustvedt is a scholar and intellectual who engages with fundamental questions of contemporary ethics and epistemology.
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Siri Hustvedt has published essays and papers in academic journals, including Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy, Neuropsychoanalysis, and Clinical Neurophysiology.
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Siri Hustvedt's works pose questions about the nature of identity, selfhood and perception.
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In 2015, Siri Hustvedt was appointed as a lecturer in psychiatry at the Dewitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical School of Cornell University.
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Siri Hustvedt is the 2012 recipient of the Gabarron International Award for Thought and Humanities.
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Siri Hustvedt received honorary doctorates from the Universite Stendhal-Grenoble, France, in 2015, and from Gutenberg University-Mainz, Germany, in 2016.
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In 2024, Siri Hustvedt received the Openbank Literature Award by Vanity Fair for her literary career.
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Siri Hustvedt met her husband, writer Paul Auster, in 1981, and they married the following year.