Nicole Krauss was born on August 18,1974 and is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room, The History of Love, Great House and Forest Dark, which have been translated into 35 languages.
21 Facts About Nicole Krauss
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Nicole Krauss's 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.
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In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House.
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Nicole Krauss's maternal grandparents were born in Germany and Ukraine and later emigrated to London.
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Nicole Krauss's paternal grandparents were born in Hungary and Slonim, Belarus, met in Israel, and later emigrated to New York.
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Nicole Krauss, who started writing when she was a teenager, wrote and published mainly poetry until she began her first novel in 2001.
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In 1987, when Nicole Krauss's father traveled with his family to Switzerland to take up a medical fellowship in Basel, she was enrolled as a boarder in the International School of Geneva, where she pursued her secondary school studies in Year 9.
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Nicole Krauss enrolled in Stanford University in 1992, and that fall she met Joseph Brodsky who worked closely with her on her poetry over the next three years.
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Nicole Krauss introduced her to the work of writers such as Italo Calvino and Zbigniew Herbert.
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In 1999, three years after Brodsky died, Nicole Krauss produced a documentary about his work for BBC Radio 3.
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Nicole Krauss traveled to St Petersburg where she stood in the "room and a half" where he grew up, made famous by his essay of that title.
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Nicole Krauss majored in English and graduated with honors, winning several undergraduate prizes for her poetry as well as the Dean's Award for academic achievement.
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Nicole Krauss curated a reading series with Fiona Maazel at the Russian Samovar, a restaurant in New York City co-founded by Roman Kaplan, Brodsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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In 1996 Nicole Krauss was awarded a Marshall Scholarship and enrolled in a master's program at Somerville College, Oxford, where she wrote a thesis on the American artist Joseph Cornell.
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In 2002, Doubleday published Nicole Krauss's acclaimed first novel, Man Walks into a Room.
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In spring 2007, Nicole Krauss was Holtzbrinck Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin.
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In 2015 it was reported that Nicole Krauss had signed a $4 million deal with HarperCollins to publish her next two works: a novel, and a book of short stories.
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In 2020, Krauss was one of three Artists-in-Residence at Columbia University's Mortimer B Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
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In 2021, Nicole Krauss was the recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the first to receive the newly created Inspiration Award, introduced to mark the 15th anniversary of the prize.
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Nicole Krauss has two children, Sasha and Cy, by her former husband, the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Nicole Krauss subsequently embarked on a five-year relationship with the Israeli journalist and novelist Gon Ben Ari, whom she met when she granted him an interview several years earlier.