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American novelist (born 1974)

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Nicole Krauss 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.

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Nicole Krauss
said · 2019
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There is little that matters more to me than my freedom and independence, artistic and otherwise.

Interview with NPR (2019)

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Nicole Krauss
said · 2019
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Years of writing novels in an instinctive, improvisatory way - without a plan, let alone a destination - taught me something about the value of sustaining uncertainty.

Interview with NPR (2019)

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Nicole Krauss
said · 2019
Own words

Everything is an old story, even what we think of as the "self" is just a narrative that our parents began telling when we were born, of which we take up authorship.

Interview with NPR (2019)

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2025Guggenheim Fellowship
2021Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
2011Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2008William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
2007Berlin Prize
2005Edward Lewis Wallant Award
Marshall Scholarship

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Nicole Krauss 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. 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 The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.

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United States
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Born 1974 · age 52
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