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(b.Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota. Her father Lloyd Hustvedt was a professor of Scandinavian literature, and her mother Ester Vegan emigrated from Norway at the age of thirty. She holds a B.A. in history from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University; her thesis on Charles Dickens was entitled Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend.
Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also produced a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, 1999, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and Modern Painters.
Hustvedt has mainly made her name as a novelist, but she has also produced a book of poetry, and has had short stories and essays on various subjects published in (among others) The Art of the Essay, 1999, The Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991, The Paris Review, Yale Review, and Modern Painters.
Awards: LA Times (2014) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
The Blindfold (1992)
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996)
What I Loved (2003)
The Sorrows of an American (2008)
The Summer Without Men (2011)
The Blazing World (2014)
Memories of the Future (2019)
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996)
What I Loved (2003)
The Sorrows of an American (2008)
The Summer Without Men (2011)
The Blazing World (2014)
Memories of the Future (2019)
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Books containing stories by Siri Hustvedt
The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss
Convergence of Birds (2001)
Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell
edited by
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Siri Hustvedt recommends
The Four Spent the Day Together (2025)
Chris Kraus
"The Four Spent the Day Together is searing politics by storytelling, a novel constructed through counterpoint as it moves among the drowned, the drowning, and the survivors of the brutal American landscape we live in now."
The Stone World (2022)
Joel Agee
"In The Stone World, a child's particular experiences are rendered with such radiant lucidity, exquisite nuance, and honest feeling they become universal. It is childhood itself that Joel Agee returns to his reader. We all were short people once, puzzling out the strange ways and often opaque language of the grownups, as well as our own fears, loves, pains, and wonders, but the specificity of these realities recedes with time. In this brilliant novel, the lost world of childhood is resurrected with a force and clarity that is nothing less than astounding."
Aquarium (2021)
Yaara Shehori
"Ambitious, intelligent, and nuanced, Aquarium is a story that interrogates the limits of stories and the words we use to tell them, whether they are made of hand signs, speech sounds, or written letters. The emotional force of Yaara Shehori’s novel turns on what remains unspoken: the fierce attachment of two sisters during childhood and the reverberating consequences of tearing them apart."
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