Sigrid Nunez is the bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award and shortlisted for the 2020 DUBLIN Literary Award. She has also written several other novels, including Salvation City and The Last of Her Kind, and uSempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
Sigrid Nunez is the bestselling author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award and shortlisted for the 2020 DUBLIN Literary Award. She has also written several other novels, including Salvation City and The Last of Her Kind, and uSempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
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