Lars Iyer

Lars Iyer
Born2 May 1970 (1970-05-02) (age 54)
London United Kingdom
OccupationNovelist, writer, philosopher
NationalityBritish (Indian-Danish)
Period2011 - present
GenrePhilosophy
SubjectMaurice Blanchot, philosophy
Notable worksSpurious, Dogma, Exodus, Wittgenstein Jr., Nietzsche and the Burbs, My Weil

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 nonfiction books about Maurice Blanchot,[2] Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political (2004) and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical (2005).

Iyer is a lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University.[3] He was previously a lecturer in philosophy.

Iyer has published, in The White Review, "a literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos".[4]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. ^ 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