Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt was born in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1955, to a Norwegian mother and an American father. She studied history and literature and began her literary journey by publishing poems in the Paris Review in 1981. She is considered one of the most robust voices in contemporary American fiction. Hustvedt has published a poetry collection titled "Reading to You" and three novels: "The Blindfold" (1992), which was immediately translated into eight languages, "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl," and "What I Loved," which received the Quebec Booksellers Award in 2003. She has also published an essay collection, "Yonder." In 2005, two new essay collections were released: "Mysteries of the Rectangle" (art theory) and "A Plea to Eros." Her book "The Summer without Men" was published in English in 2011 and has been successfully translated into 26 languages. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, author Paul Auster, and their two children. (photo: Marion Ettlinger)