Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss
Krauss in 2011
Krauss in 2011
Born (1974-08-18) August 18, 1974 (age 50)
New York City, US
OccupationNovelist and short story writer
EducationStanford University
Somerville College, Oxford
Courtauld Institute
Literary movementPostmodernism
Notable worksMan Walks into a Room (2002)
The History of Love (2005)
Great House (2010)
Forest Dark (2017)
To Be a Man (2020)
Notable awards
Spouse
(m. 2004; div. 2014)
Children2
Website
nicolekrauss.com

Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974)[1] is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages.[2] Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008 and Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for Great House.[3] A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020[4] and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.[5][6]

  1. ^ Jennifer L. Knox (21 June 2010). "20 Under 40: Q. & A. Nicole Krauss". The New Yorker. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Private Passions: Nicole Krauss". BBC Radio 3, BBC website. 27 March 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Nicole Krauss: Great House". 2011 Fiction. Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
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  6. ^ David Herman (17 February 2022). "Wingate Winner Nicole Krauss opens up about the stories that stunned the judges". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 18 February 2022.