Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, six essay collections, seven novels —including The Blazing World and Memories of the Future— and several works of nonfiction, among them Ghost Stories, published in May 2026. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. The Blazing World was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Hustvedt has received numerous distinctions, including the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Prix européen de l’essai from the Charles Veillon Foundation, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, the Princess of Asturias Award, and the Sigourney Award. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.