Nicole Krauss


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in New York City, The United States
August 18, 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. 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 award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 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. ...more

Average rating: 3.81 · 181,337 ratings · 18,309 reviews · 26 distinct worksSimilar authors
The History of Love

3.92 avg rating — 140,525 ratings — published 2005 — 140 editions
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Great House

3.49 avg rating — 18,666 ratings — published 2010 — 80 editions
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Forest Dark

3.08 avg rating — 7,626 ratings — published 2017 — 53 editions
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Man Walks into a Room

3.35 avg rating — 6,926 ratings — published 2002 — 40 editions
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To Be a Man: Stories

3.61 avg rating — 3,742 ratings — published 2020
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An Arrangement of Light

3.38 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Zusya on the Roof

3.78 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2013
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Switzerland

3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Fiction for the Rest of Us

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

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