Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt
Born	July 2, 1955 (1955-19-02) (age 52) Northfield, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States
Occupation	novelist and poet
Nationality	US-American (Norwegian descent)
Writing period	1983 -
Genres	literary fiction, art criticism, poetry, essays
Literary movement	Postmodernism

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Novels 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Essay collections 3 External links

[edit] Biography

Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota. Her father Lloyd Hustvedt was a professor of Scandinavian literature, and her mother Ester Vegan emigrated from Norway at the age of thirty. She holds a B.A. in history from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University; her thesis on Charles Dickens was entitled Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend.

Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also produced a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, 1999, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and Modern Painters.

Like Auster, Hustvedt employs a use of repetitive themes or symbols throughout her work. Most notably the use of certain types of voyeurism, often linking objects of the dead to characters who are relative strangers to the deceased characters (most notable in various facits in her novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl) and the exploration of identity. She has also written essays on art history and theory (see "Essay collections") and painting and painters often appear in her fiction, most notably, perhaps, in her novel, What I Loved.

She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the writer Paul Auster, and their daughter, singer and actress Sophie Auster.

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

• The Blindfold (1992)
• The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996)
• What I Loved (2003)
• The Sorrows of an American (2008)

[edit] Poetry

• Reading to You (1983)

[edit] Essay collections

• Yonder (1998)
• Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2005)
• A Plea for Eros (2005)

[edit] External links

• Interview with Siri Hustvedt in Identity Theory
• Article about Siri Hustvedt in Telegraph
• Video conference from Baruch College, CUNY (2005), Siri Hustvedt gives a reading of her work in progress The Sorrows of an American
• Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books
• Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt talking about her novel What I Loved in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books
• Siri Hustvedt video interview (Dropping Knowledge) in YouTube
• Siri Hustvedt migraine blog in NYT

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NAME	Hustvedt, Siri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	novelist, essayist, poet
DATE OF BIRTH	February 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Northfield, Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH