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Siri Hustvedt, writer: ‘I’d like to go to my grave with a little whiff of Paul Auster’s smoke’

13 June 2026 at 05:00
Siri Hustvedt at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes.

Fate, that force that so suffuses the fiction of Paul Auster (Newark, New Jersey, 1947 – Brooklyn, New York, 2024) resulted in a strange journey back to where she started for writer Siri Hustvedt (Northfield, Minnesota, 1955) on this hot Wednesday morning. She is seated in a room at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes cultural center, speaking with EL PAÍS about her latest book Ghost Stories, a moving text dedicated to the memory of her husband and to the mourning that followed his loss when he fell victim to cancer.

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Writers Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, in an image provided by the author from her personal archive.
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