Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez, photo by Marion Ettlinger
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 8 p.m.
Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
Join us Thursday, September 25, at 8 pm, for the 55th annual Steloff Lecture delivered by novelist Sigrid Nunez. Nunez will lecture, respond to audience questions, and be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She will sign books following the presentation.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. In France, it was longlisted for the 2019 Prix Femina and named a finalist for the 2019 Prix du Meilleure Livre. It was also a finalist for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. In 2024, the New York Times listed The Friend among the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Two of her recent novels have been made into major motion pictures: The Friend (dirs. Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2024), starring Bill Murray and Naomi Watts, and The Room Next Door (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2024), starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. A collection of Nunez’s short fiction will be published in August, 2026, under the title It Will Come Back to You.
Nunez has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Boston University, Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, Syracuse, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. She lives in New York City.
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