Siri Hustvedt is an award-winning novelist and author of a book of poetry, seven novels, four collections of essays, and a work of nonfiction. Her many awards include the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities and the Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction for The Blazing World, which was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2019, she won an award for literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the European Essay Prize (Charles Veillon) for The Delusions of Certainty, a book-length essay on the mind-body problem, and the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Literature in Spain. She has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her scholarly work is interdisciplinary, and she has published papers in various academic and scientific journals. |
