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 ofnonfiction, including Ghost Stories, published in May 2026. Hustvedt has a PhD fromColumbia University in English Literature and an appointment as a lecturer inpsychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. The Blazing World was long-listed forthe Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction. She has beenawarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities, the Prixeuropéen de l’essai from the Foundation Charles Veillon, an American Academy ofArts and Letters Award for Literature, the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain, andThe Sigourney Award. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York.