西里·哈斯特维特

希莉·哈斯特维特（英语：Siri Hustvedt，1955年2月19日—）挪威裔美国女作家，保罗·奥斯特的第二任妻子。

生平

1955年生于美国明尼苏达州的诺斯菲尔德。父母是挪威到美国的移民，她从小生活在挪威语和英语的双语环境中。父亲在当地的奥拉夫大学教授挪威语言文学，她也在这所大学读完了历史学本科。1978年搬到纽约，1986年在哥伦比亚大学获得英语文学博士学位。

1981年与保罗·奥斯特相识，同年结婚，1988年生下了女儿苏菲·奥斯特。

她的小说包括《一个美国人的悲哀》、《着迷的莉莉·达尔》、《眼罩》、《我所热爱的东西》和《没有男人的夏天》，后两部作品均为国际畅销书。

中文译本

[美]希莉·哈斯特维特. 《没有男人的夏天》. 由杨眉翻译. 人民文学出版社. 2016年10月. ISBN 9787020118366.

荣誉

2014年：挪威奥斯陆大学荣誉博士

2016年：德国美因茨大学荣誉博士

2019年：阿斯图里亚斯女亲王奖文学奖

Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include The Blindfold (1992), The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996), What I Loved (2003), for which she is best known, A Plea for Eros (2006), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010), The Summer Without Men (2011), Living, Thinking, Looking (2012), The Blazing World (2014), Memories of the Future (2019), and Ghost Stories (2026). What I Loved and The Summer Without Men were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.

Early life

Hustvedt was born on February 19, 1955, in Northfield, Minnesota. The daughter of American professor Lloyd Hustvedt and a Norwegian mother, Hustvedt grew up speaking both English and Norwegian. She attended public school in her hometown of Northfield and received a diploma from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973.

She started writing at 13 after a family trip to Reykjavík, where she read various works of classic literature. Particularly impressed by Dickens's David Copperfield, she decided after finishing it that she wanted to make literature her profession. Hustvedt graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in history in 1977. She moved to New York City to attend Columbia University as a graduate student in 1978. Her first published work was a poem in The Paris Review. There were periods of time during her college years when Hustvedt lived in poverty, and she had to resort to an emergency loan from the university to survive.

Career

A small collection of poems, Reading to You, appeared in 1982 with Station Hill Press.

She completed her PhD in English at Columbia in 1986. Her dissertation on Charles Dickens, Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, is an exploration of language and identity in the novel, with particular emphasis on Dickens's metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a narrative, dialogical conception of self. She refers in the dissertation to thinkers who influenced her later writing, including Søren Kierkegaard, Emile Benveniste, Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Mary Douglas, Paul Ricoeur, and Julia Kristeva.

After finishing her dissertation, Hustvedt began writing prose. Two stories of the four that would become her first novel, The Blindfold, were published in literary magazines and later included in Best American Short Stories 1990 and 1991. Since then she has continued to write fiction and publish essays on the intersections between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. She also writes regularly about visual art. Hustvedt gave the third annual Schelling lecture on aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

She has also given talks at the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and published a volume of essays on painting: Mysteries of the Rectangle. In 2011, she delivered the annual Sigmund Freud lecture in Vienna, one of a distinguished list of speakers that includes Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell, Jessica Benjamin, Mark Solms, and Judith Butler.

Themes

Hustvedt is a scholar and intellectual who engages with fundamental questions of contemporary ethics and epistemology. In her visits to European and German universities, she has given readings from her works and contributed to the interdisciplinary dialogue between the humanities and the sciences, notably in a keynote lecture and panel discussion on the relationship between the life sciences and literature at the 2012 annual conference of the German Association for American Studies in Mainz. In 2013, she delivered the opening keynote address at an international conference on Søren Kierkegaard in Copenhagen on the occasion of his 200th birthday.