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Sigrid Nunez


Born
The United States
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Genre
Fiction, Memoir


Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which she has contributed are The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and The Believer. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian American literature.

Sigrid’s honors and awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 108,504 ratings · 16,373 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors
The Friend
3.71 avg rating — 63,120 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions
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What Are You Going Through
3.71 avg rating — 19,719 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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The Vulnerables
3.54 avg rating — 13,207 ratings — published 2023 — 33 editions
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The Last of Her Kind
3.85 avg rating — 3,144 ratings — published 2005
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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of S...
3.91 avg rating — 2,500 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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A Feather on the Breath of God
3.99 avg rating — 2,233 ratings — published 1995 — 26 editions
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Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloom...
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3.98 avg rating — 1,438 ratings — published 1998 — 28 editions
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Salvation City
3.22 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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For Rouenna
3.87 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions
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It Will Come Back To You
3.84 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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“What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
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“Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I'll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
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“Consider rereading, how risky it is, especially when the book is one that you loved. Always the chance that it won't hold up, that you might, for whatever reason, not love it as much. When this happens, and to me it happens all the time (and more and more as I get older), the effect is so disheartening that I now open old favorites warily.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
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