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Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher. He has published six novels and is best known for the trilogy Spurious (2011), 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.
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".
Iyer has published two nonfiction books about Maurice Blanchot, Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political (2004) and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical (2005).
Iyer has also published many articles on philosophy and culture and a manifesto against literature and manifestos entitled "Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss (A literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos)".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
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