Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez was born in 1951 in New York and is the author of a dozen novels, essays, and short stories. In 2018, she won the National Book Award for her work... The Friend, selected by the newspaper The New York Times newspaper Recognized as one of the 100 best books of the 21st century and adapted into a film in 2024. In the same year, it also premiered. The Room Next Door, by Pedro Almodóvar, a film adaptation of his novel What is your torment?, critically acclaimed as one of the best books of 2020. Awarded numerous distinctions, including the Windham-Campbell and the Whiting Award, Sigrid Nunez is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has taught at several American universities, and has contributed to prestigious publications such as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review or The New York Review of Books. His work is published in more than thirty countries.