Lars Iyer

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Lars Iyer (born May 2, 1970 in London ) is a British writer and philosopher .

Life

Lars Iyer was born in West London and grew up in the Thames Valley . He studied and obtained a PhD in philosophy . After teaching at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Hertfordshire , Iyer is currently a lecturer at Newcastle University . Iyer made his debut as an author with two works on the French writer Maurice Blanchot . He made his writing debut in 2011 with the short novella Spurious , which kicked off a trilogy which, after Dogma, ended in 2013 in Exodus. For the novel Exodus he was nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize in 2013.

Works (selection)

Novels
  • Spurious. Melville House Publ., Brooklyn, NY 2011.
  • Dogma. Melville House Publ., Brooklyn, NY 2012.
  • Exodus. Melville House Publ., Brooklyn, NY 2013.
  • Wittgenstein Jr. United Kingdom Melville House, 2014.
Non-fiction
  • Blanchot's Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2004, ISBN 1-4039-2168-7 .
  • Blanchot's Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2005, ISBN 1-4039-3927-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melissa Seley: For Friendship, Untie A Knot: Lars Iyer , bombmagazine.org , March 29, 2012, accessed October 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Alex Shephard: Lars Iyer , full-stop.net , June 22, 2011, accessed October 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Iyer, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH London