Writers For Democratic Action
Books & Books and Writers for Democratic Action present: An Afternoon with Julie Iromuanya, Elif Shafak and Jiayang Fan moderated by WDA founding member Siri Hustvedt.
A hundred intellectuals from around the world demand that Putin release Navalni
Siri Hustvedt adds her voice to 99 others in an open letter to President Putin demanding the release of Alexei Navalni.
Princess of Asturias Award Ceremony
Siri will attend the Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony on October 18, 2019, to accept her Literature award.
The Hidden History of Women in Arts and Science: Synesthesia, Memory, and Intergenerational Recollections
Join Siri live online with the Escaramuza Bookstore & Café in Montevideo, Uruguay.
How to Own the Room
On the "How to Own the Room" podcast, Viv Groskop talks to writer and public intellectual Siri Hustvedt about sexism, misogyny and why she believes politeness is a bad policy.
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.
