Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss ( born 1974 in New York) is an American novelist. She lives with her husband, the writer Jonathan Safran Foer, and two children in New York. Your grandparents were Jews who still succeeded - in contrast to other family members - to leave Europe in time.

Life

Nicole Krauss studied English literature at Stanford University and at the University of Oxford. In addition, she studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, these studies she completed a thesis on Rembrandt from.

Already during her studies she began to publish articles in English literature journals. Her literary interests include Rainer Maria Rilke, Zbigniew Herbert, and especially Joseph Brodsky. With the latter, Nicole Krauss was in frequent correspondence. For the BBC, she produced in 1999 a portrait Brodsky for radio. In New York, Nicole Krauss organized several readings, among other things, the writer Susan Sontag, Derek Walcott and Jonathan Franzen.

Nicole Krauss grabbed her own family background in her novel " The History of Love" on - this is the one of Leo Gursky, who escaped the destruction of over forty years ago by the Nazis and his childhood sweetheart Alma mourns that he was still in Europe a book had devoted about love. Secondly, the novel is about a fourteen year old girl named Alma, which owes its name to the fictional character Alma and now investigating.

From November 2006 to February 2007 Nicole Krauss was a columnist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Every second Saturday - alternating with Christian Kracht - published a column titled " My streets in. .. ". As of March 2007 took over Jenny Erpenbeck 's column.

2007 was Nicole Krauss Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, working on her third novel.

Works

• A man comes into the room. (Man Walks Into a Room ). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 3-498-03524- X. as an audio book: Ulrich Noethen reading Nicole Krauss, a man comes into the room. Argon -Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86610-187-2. (8 CDs)

• As an audio book: Dieter man reading Nicole Krauss, The History of Love. Argon -Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86610-187-2 (7 CDs).