Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez is an United Sates author of five novels including her debut, ' (1996, ISBN 0-06-092684-8), "Naked Sleeper", ', "For Rouenna", and "The Last of Her Kind". She often addresses class and violence in her novels. She chronicles a time period, such as the 1960's, socially, politically, and intimately in the eyes of women, and is perceptive about character and opinions. She is a creative writing teacher at Columbia University. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring, 2005. She has received a Whiting Writers' 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.

Bibliography

*"A Feather on the Breath of God"
*"Naked Sleeper"
*"Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury"
*"For Rouenna"
*"The Last of her Kind"


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