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]

Lars Iyer was brought up in southeast England, in Wokingham, 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.

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)

• Lars Iyer on Twitter
• Personal Blog