Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez (2019)

Sigrid Nunez (born 1951 in New York City ) is an American writer.

Life

Sigrid Nunez is the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. She grew up in New York City, studied at Barnard College (BA 1972) and received an MFA from Columbia University .

Nunez has held various teaching positions, so at Amherst College, Smith College and Columbia University.

The novel Like a Feather on God's Breath (1996) was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award. Nunez was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 . In 2005 she was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin . In 2018 she received a National Book Award for the novel The Friend . In 2020 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship .

Works

• A Feather on the Breath of God (1995)
  • Like a feather on the breath of God: novel . Translation Bernhard Robben . Knaus, Munich 1996 ISBN 978-3-8135-0004-2
• Naked Sleeper (1996)
  • With love, Lyle: Roman . Translation of Elke Link. Goldmann, Munich 1999 ISBN 978-3-442-72506-9
• Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998)
  • The marmoset: a Virginia Woolf novel . Translation of Liselotte Prugger. Goldmann, Munich 2001 ISBN 978-3-442-72405-5
• For Rouenna (2001)
  • For Rouenna: Roman . Translation of Anette Grube. ISBN 978-3-630-87124-0
• The Last of Her Kind (2006)
• Salvation City (2010)
• Semper Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag (2011)
• The Friend (2018)
  • The friend . Translation of Anette Grube. Structure, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-351-03486-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigrid Nunez in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Sigrid Nunez in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Sigrid Nunez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sigrid Nunez , website (s)
• Sigrid Nunez , at House of World Cultures , Berlin, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sigrid Nunez on gf.org , accessed on August 23, 2020