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Lars Iyer

b. 1970

British novelist and philosopher

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Born 1970. Lars Iyer is a British philosopher, writer and novelist.

Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher. He has published six novels and is best known for the trilogy Spurious, Dogma (2012), and Exodus (2013). He has been shortlisted for the Believer Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He has also written and published two nonfiction books about Maurice Blanchot.

Life Lars Iyer was born in London in 1970. He is of Indian and Danish parentage. He was brought up in Wokingham in South East England, where he returned after completing his undergraduate degree at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1993. Despite being religiously unaffiliated, Iyer spent seven years living among monks in Patmos, Greece.

Iyer is a professor in creative writing at Newcastle University, where he has also taught philosophy. He is also a professor at the European Graduate School.

Iyer has since published three more novels, Wittgenstein Jr. (2014), Nietzsche and the Burbs (2019), and My Weil (2023). These make up another trilogy, this time following "a journey through time and place – from the lively nightclubs of Manchester's past to the hollow symbols of aspirational culture and corporate homogeneity: Cambridge and Wokingham".

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) My Weil (2023, Melville House)

Non-Fiction Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy, and the Political (2004, Palgrave Macmillan) Blanchot's Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical (2004, Palgrave Macmillan)

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British novelist and philosopher

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Lars Iyer was born on 2 May 1970 in London.

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