Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestsellers Forest Dark, Great House (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was shortlisted for the Orange, Médicis and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and were collected in To Be A Man, which received the Wingate Prize. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her books have been translated into 38 languages.