Brooklyn Book Festival
On Sunday, September 17th, at 4.30 pm, join three global literary citizens for "Minds Without Borders."
Foreword for Teju Cole
...as the writer Siri Hustvedt notes in her foreword, “Teju Cole really gets around.”
Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind was longlisted for the 2017 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
The Shaking Woman: Readings & Discussion
Join Siri Hustvedt at Cambridge University in England for the Pediatric Neurology Masterclass Programme.
"Perhaps I could time travel as a man or a ghost."
The novelist on going back in time, bringing back mourning clothes and how she would edit the past.
Biography
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.
