Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez
Born	New York City
Occupation	writer
Nationality	American
Notable awards	Whiting Award, Rome Prize, Berlin Prize

Sigrid Nunez is an American writer.

Biography

Sigrid Nunez is the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. She was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Columbia University. After finishing school she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books. She has taught at Princeton University, Amherst College, Smith College, Columbia University and the New School, and has been a visiting writer at Baruch College, Washington University, Vassar College and the University of California, Irvine, among others. She has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and of several other writers' conferences across the United States. She lives in New York City.

Work

Nunez is the author of six novels: A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, The Last of Her Kind, and Salvation City. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four volumes of Asian American literature. Among the journals she has contributed to are The New York Times, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and O: The Oprah Magazine.

Nunez's major preoccupations as a novelist have been language, memory, identity, class, and writing itself. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in spring, 2005. Among her other honors are a Whiting Award and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Bibliography

Books

• A Feather on the Breath of God (1995)
• Naked Sleeper (1996)
• Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998)
• For Rouenna (2001)
• The Last of Her Kind (2006)
• Salvation City (2010)
• Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag (2011)

Short Fiction

• "Airport Story". The Threepenny Review. 127. Fall 2011.

External links

• "The Artist's Life: Sigrid Nunez," New York Foundation for the Arts, 2011
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• "Sempre Susan," The New York Review of Books, July 14, 2011
• "Sempre Susan," The Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 8, 2011
• "Sempre Susan," The Economist, April 14, 2011
• "Salvation City," NY Times Book Review, October 3, 2010
• "Interview," Bookslut, Oct 2010
• "Interview," NPR, September 30, 2010
• "The Last of Her Kind," by Andrew O'Hehir at Salon.com February 8, 2006
• "The Last of Her Kind," NY Times review, January 1, 2006
• "Writer's Block," Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2005

Webpage

• http://www.sigridnunez.com/