Sigrid Nunez is the distinguished author of nine novels, the first of which was published when she was in her 40’s. Born and raised in New York City, she’s the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. Nunez grew up in the projects, went on to study English at Barnard College, and later got a master of fine arts from Columbia University.

Her body of work includes the novels A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been adapted into a film. Her 2020 novel What Are You Going Through has also been recently adapted into the Golden Lion-winning film The Room Next Door by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar and starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.

Wyatt Mason of The New York Times Magazine referred to Nunez as a “master of noticing” who “smuggles profound reflections on pain and loss into novels of deceptive lightness.” Nunez’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her internationally loved work has been translated in over 30 languages.

Nunez has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Boston University, Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, Syracuse, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. She lives in New York City.

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