Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt is a writer E American born the February 19th 1955 in Northfield (State of the Minnesota), the United States of Norwegian immigrant parents.

Poetess, essay writer and recognized novelist, it is graduate (PhD) in English Literature of the Université of Columbia.

February 23rd, 1981, Siri Hustvedt goes to a meeting reading of poetry, to which also Paul Auster assists. The love at first sight is reciprocal, it will marry the writer the following year. They live in Brooklyn, New York, and have a girl, Sophie.

Its works are translated in 16 country to date. Into France the writings of Siri Hustvedt are represented by Christine the Ox and are published at Actes Sud.

Works

Reading to You ( To read for you ) 1983
bandaged Eyes ( The Blindfold ) 1992, transl. Frenchwoman 1996
Envoûtement de Lily Dahl ( The Enchantment off Lily Dahl ) 1996, transl. Frenchwoman 1999
All that I loved ( What I Loved ) 2003, French transl.
Mysteries of the rectangle: Tests on painting ( Mysteries off the Right-angled: Essays one Painting ) 2005, transl. Frenchwoman 2006
has Plea for Eros 2006

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