Lars Iyer
Lars Iyer | |
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| Born | 2 May 1970 (age 51) London United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer, philosopher |
| Nationality | British (Indian-Danish) |
| Notable works | Spurious, Dogma, Exodus |
Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher of Indian/Danish parentage. He is best known for a trilogy of short novels: Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012), and Exodus (2013), all published by Melville House.[1] Iyer has been shortlisted for both the Believer Book Award (Spurious, 2011) and the Goldsmiths Prize (Exodus, 2013). He has also written and published two books about Maurice Blanchot.[2]
Iyer is a lecturer at Newcastle University.[3]
Iyer has published, in The White Review, "a literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos" which has attracted some attention.[4]
Works[]
- Fiction
- Spurious (2011, Melville House)
- Dogma (2012, Melville House)
- Exodus (2013, Melville House)
- Wittgenstein Jr (2014, Melville House)
- Nietzsche and the Burbs (2019, Melville House)
- Non-Fiction
- Blanchot's Communism (2004, Palgrave Macmillan)
- Blanchot's Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical (2004, Palgrave Macmillan)
References[]
- ^ Williams, John (27 February 2013). "Newly Released Books 'The Next Time You See Me,' by Holly Goddard Jones, and More". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ Lars Iyer, Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss (A literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos), The White Review, November 2011
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