| 词条 | Sigrid Nunez |
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| name = Sigrid Nunez | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year|1951}} | birth_place = New York City | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = American | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Whiting Award, Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, National Book Award | signature = | website = }} Sigrid Nunez is an American writer, best known for her novels. Her seventh novel, The Friend, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. BiographySigrid Nunez is the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. She was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Barnard College (1972) and her MFA from Columbia University (1975). After finishing school she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books. Nunez is currently writer in residence at Boston University and has taught at several other schools including Amherst College, Columbia University, the New School, Princeton University, and Smith College. She lives in Manhattan. In 1989, Nunez won a General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers.[1]. In 1993 she was awarded a Whiting Writers Award. She has also been the recipient of two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters: The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award (1999) and the Rome Prize in Literature (2000-2001). She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2005. Nunez's work has received four Pushcart Prizes. Her seventh novel, The Friend, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction.[2] Nunez is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. WorkNunez has contributed to numerous journals, including The New York Times, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and The Wall Street Journal. Nunez's first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God (1995), called "an impressive debut" by The Atlantic, deals largely with the experiences of her immigrant parents and her own childhood growing up in a New York City housing project. Nunez's second novel, Naked Sleeper (1996), is similar in its "evocative style" to A Feather on the Breath of God, according to Library Journal, [3] though more traditional in form. The main character, Nona, is a middle-aged woman struggling to understand her place in the world and how she should live her life.[4] The book focuses on an extramarital affair she impulsively falls into as well as her attempts to understand the father who abandoned her as a child, and broadens into an exploration of the "nature of love."[5] The Chicago Tribune noted that "It's hard to write characters who worry about love and fate without sounding--or making them sound---silly. But Nunez manages it."[6] Nunez's next book was the novella Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (1998), a mock biography of a pet marmoset once owned by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.[7] Nunez's novel about a US Army nurse who served in Vietnam, For Rouenna, appeared in 2001. Her following novel, The Last of Her Kind (2006), concerns the lives of two women who live through "the cultural upheavals of the 1960s."[8] Nunez has stated that she wanted to write about the sixties by imagining lives for "specific individuals who happened to come of age in that revolutionary time."[8] The novel examines such issues as social justice, race in America and political idealism.[9] The two main characters are women from very different backgrounds who meet as freshman roommates at Barnard.[10] Nunez follows their lives over decades as they continue to intersect.[10] According to Salon, The Last of Her Kind is a "Great American novel" and Nunez "is an exceptionally subtle stylist who begins in the female-coded zone of nuance and emotion, so [the reviewer] can only hope that people will notice the scale of her achievement here."[10] Her sixth novel, Salvation City, is a boy's coming-of-age story set during and after a global flu pandemic as well as an exploration of the conflicting worldviews and other differences between atheists and Christian fundamentalists.[11] The main character, Cole, only child of liberal academic parents, is orphaned by the pandemic and ends up in the care of a childless evangelical pastor and his wife.[12] The New York Times wrote that the novel was "satisfying, provocative and very plausible."[12] In 2011, Nunez published Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag, based on her experiences sharing a household with the well-known writer and intellectual Susan Sontag and her son David Rieff, Nunez's boyfriend at the time, in the 1970s. The New York Review of Books called the memoir "fresh and touching."[13] The Los Angeles Times wrote that the book was "a loving memoir, full of arresting details and an occasional spirited defense of her mentor."[14] The Friend (2018) is a novel told from the point of view of a writer whose lifelong best friend and mentor commits suicide and who then finds herself burdened with the care of the enormous Great Dane he has left behind. [15] The book, elegiac in tone, is a meditation on grief, friendship, and the relationships between animals and humans, in particular the intense human-canine bond.[15][16] [17] Considerable attention is also paid to the profession of writing and the teaching of writing and how they have changed over the time of the lives of the narrator and her mentor.[17] [18] [19]BibliographyBooks
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18 : 1951 births|Living people|American people of German descent|American people of Chinese descent|American people of Panamanian descent|American people of Shanghainese descent|American novelists of Asian descent|Columbia University School of the Arts alumni|Writers from New York City|Barnard College alumni|Amherst College faculty|Smith College faculty|Columbia University faculty|The New School faculty|MacDowell Colony fellows|Rome Prize winners|American women novelists|Novelists from New York (state) |
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