About Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt, born February 19, 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota, is an American poet, writer and essayist. She is also a lecturer in psychiatry at Cornell University. Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955. Her father is an American, a veteran of the Second World War who became a teacher, and whose grandparents were Norwegian emigrants. Her mother is Norwegian. At home, Siri Hustvedt speaks English or Norwegian, and has visited Norway on several occasions. She holds a Ph.D. degree in English literature from Columbia University.On February 23, 1981, Siri Hustvedt went to a poetry reading session, which was also attended by the writer Paul Auster. They married the following year. They live in Brooklyn (New York) and have a daughter, Sophie Auster. She published her first collection of poems, Reading to You, in 1982 by Station Hill Press.
Her first novel, The Blindfold was published in 1992, and her third novel What I Loved (2003) enjoyed international success. What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. In 2010, she published an essay, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, on the neurological disorders that she studied in psychiatric hospitals. Since 2015, Siri Hustvedt has been a lecturer in psychiatry at the Weill School of Medicine at Cornell University. Her works have been translated into sixteen languages ??to date. In 2012, she received the international Gabarron prize for reflection and the human sciences. In 2019, she was awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize for her entire work and in 2024, she received the Openbank Literature Award by Vanity Fair for her literary career.
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