The Sigourney Award

Siri Hustvedt has won The Sigourney Award for 2025. Every year, The Sigourney Award bestows international recognition and a substantial cash prize honoring outstanding psychoanalytic work completed during the past 10 years. After a prestigious panel of judges reviewed work submitted from 11 countries across the globe, Robin A. Deutsch, PhD, Analyst Co-Trustee of The Sigourney Award Trust, announces Siri Hustvedt, PhD as one of four recipients whose work is honored with The Sigourney Award-2025.

“A prolific and accomplished writer in many genres, Dr. Hustvedt has written poems, novels, essays, and scholarly articles of astonishing intellectual range. In each, she addresses questions of identity, gender, consciousness, and perception with a sensibility steeped in psychoanalytic insight and nuance,” says Dr. Deutsch. Founded by Mary Sigourney in 1989, The Sigourney Award was established to annually recognize and promote exceptional achievements of the past decade that foster greater understanding, innovation, and acceptance of psychoanalysis and its societal benefits. A notable panel of anonymous judges evaluated a broad spectrum of work from 11 countries and selected four bodies of work that most closely aligned with Sigourney's vision.