Lars Iyer | |
Birth Place: | London United Kingdom |
Occupation: | Novelist, writer, philosopher |
Nationality: | British (Indian-Danish) |
Period: | 2011 - present |
Genre: | Philosophy |
Subject: | Maurice Blanchot, philosophy |
Notableworks: | Spurious, 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]