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Nicole Krauss


Born
in New York City, The United States
August 18, 1974

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Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in Best American Short Stories 2003, Best American Short Stories 2008 and Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022. ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 178,688 ratings · 17,978 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
The History of Love
3.92 avg rating — 138,606 ratings — published 2005 — 134 editions
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Great House
3.49 avg rating — 18,479 ratings — published 2010 — 78 editions
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Forest Dark
3.08 avg rating — 7,506 ratings — published 2017 — 52 editions
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Man Walks into a Room
3.35 avg rating — 6,853 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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To Be a Man: Stories
3.61 avg rating — 3,609 ratings — published 2020
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An Arrangement of Light
3.37 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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Zusya on the Roof
3.78 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2013
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Switzerland
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Fiction for the Rest of Us
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“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
tags: love
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“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
tags: power-of-words
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“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
tags: comfort, sad, sadness
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