Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt

Infobox Writer

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birthdate = Birth date and age|1955|2|19
birthplace = Northfield, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States
occupation = novelist and poet
nationality = US-American (Norwegian descent)
period = 1983 -
genre = literary fiction, art criticism, poetry, essays
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Siri Hustvedt (born February 19 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.

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.

Works

Novels

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

Poetry

*"Reading to You" (1983)

Essay collections

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

External links

* [http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum104.html Interview with Siri Hustvedt in Identity Theory]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/01/11/basiri11.xml Article about Siri Hustvedt in Telegraph]
* [http://www.baruch.edu/dml/engine.php?action=viewMedia&source=category&mediaIndex=352&listPlace=5&rootCategory=62&genreFilter=0&typeFilter=0 Video conference from Baruch College, CUNY (2005), Siri Hustvedt gives a reading of her work in progress The Sorrows of an American]
* [http://www.eyeonbooks.com/craft/hustvedtcraft.wax Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books]
* [http://www.eyeonbooks.com/EOB/0403/hustvedt.wax Audio clip of Siri Hustvedt talking about her novel What I Loved in The Writer's Craft, Eye on Books]
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=geslxNApJUA Siri Hustvedt video interview (Dropping Knowledge) in YouTube]
* [http://migraine.blogs.nytimes.com/author/shustvedt/ Siri Hustvedt migraine blog in NYT]

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