A writer from New York with an extensive and award-winning literary career. Her work explores themes such as friendship, loss, loneliness, memory and the meaning of writing. What Are You Going Through (Riverhead Books, 2020) was the inspiration behind Almodóvar’s last film, La habitación de al lado [The Room Next Door] (2024).
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Saturday 25 October, 20.00 - 21.15
A Shared Room
The daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father, Sigrid Nunez was born in New York City, where she still lives. Her personal and intellectual ties with the city are a theme in much of her work. Her books, which navigate between fiction and thought, include A Feather on the Breath of God (HarperCollins, 1995), The Last of Her Kind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) and Salvation City (Riverhead Books, 2010), as well as a book Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag (Atlas Books, 2011), The Friend (Riverhead Books, 2018), and The Vulnerables (Riverhead Books, 2023).
She has received several awards, including the prestigious National Book Award for Fiction (2018), which cemented her status as one of the most relevant voices in contemporary American narrative.
Nunez has also forged a career as a professor and has contributed to print media, such as The New York Times and O: The Oprah Magazine.
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