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  Sigrid Nunez

  

  Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. A collection of her short fiction, It Will Come Back to You, will be published in July 2026. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 Dublin Literary Award. Nunez’s other honors include a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. (Photo credit: Adam Lerner)