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Nora Krug
Nora Krug, born in Karlsruhe in 1977, studied stage design, documentary film and illustration in Liverpool, Berlin, and New York. Her drawings and illustrated stories are regularly published in major daily newspapers and magazines (including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique). She is a Fulbright Scholar and has received numerous awards and grants, including from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Maurice Sendak Foundation, as well as being named Illustrator of the Year by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her debut “Heimat. Ein deutsches Familienalbum” (“Belonging. A German Reckons With History And Home”) was a uniquely successful international book event, winning the 2018 National Book Critics Award in the U.S. and selected as mandatory reading at German schools in 2022. Krug is a professor of illustration at Parsons School of Design in New York and lives in Brooklyn.
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Latest book
Im Krieg – Diaries of War
Penguin
A Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist, accompanied for a year by a German-American illustrator. Two lives at war, two diaries over 52 weeks, a book full of hope for peace.
A few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nora Krug reached out to two people in Kiev and St. Petersburg, who tell her in weekly conversations what the war means to them. How they talk about it with their children, with friends and strangers, whether they can work and how they live. What it means when your home is destroyed. And how it feels when it is taken away from you because your own convictions are incompatible with the war that your home country is waging. Nora Krug spent 52 weeks collecting and illustrating the reports. Excerpts from the visual diaries were published in Süddeutsche Zeitung and The Los Angeles Times, among others. This book covers the entire first year of the war.
Winner of the 2023 Overseas Press Club Award, the L.A. Times series was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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