Heartland Festival: Siri Hustvedt and Carolin Emcke
Siri will join author, philosopher and former war correspondent Carolin Emcke in Copenhagen for a conversation about hatred.
04 Jun 2022, Heartland Festival
Siri will join author, philosopher and former war correspondent Carolin Emcke in Copenhagen for a conversation about hatred.
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted which turn out to be far less stable than we imagine. On sale now.
"We talked about art, gender, misogyny, racism and cultural authority, and her long fascination with the work of US visual artist Louise Bourgeois."
Siri will join author, philosopher and former war correspondent Carolin Emcke in Copenhagen for a conversation about hatred.
Sharmila Mukherjee reviews Siri's latest book for NPR.
Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of non-fiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.