Siri Hustvedt

Events
24 Sep 2026

Contemporánea Condeduque

Our Vulnerable Side

A conversation at Contemporánea Condeduque.

Honors & Recognitions
Aug 2026

Deauville Festival

The Lucien-Bar­rière Prize

The 2026 Lucien-Bar­rière Prize for Amer­i­can Fic­tion is award­ed to Siri Hustvedt for Ghost Sto­ries

Lectures & Conversations
23 Jul 2026

Carole Zimmer

Now What? podcast

An intimate conversation with podcast host Carole Zimmer.

Interviews
May 2026

A Rabbit's Foot

Siri Hustvedt writes from beyond

Kitty Grady talks to Siri about "the cognitive splintering that followed the death of her husband."

Biography

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.