Juan Carlos Brendt, Chief Partnerships Div of UN, introducing Siri Hustvedt (prominent contemporary author and wife of author Paul Auster) at the UN Bookshop for a Meet the Author event for World English Day at the UN on Friday 23 April, 2010. Ms. Hustvedt read an excerpt from her novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (which references Shakespeare's A Midummer Night's Dream) --and spoke a bit about how Shakespeare inspired her as a contemporary author.