It was the winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography Category), of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, the Art Directors Club gold cube and discipline winner cube, the British Book Design and Production Award, the Literaturförderpreis of the city of Aalen, the Evangelischer Buchpreis, and the Ludwig-Marum-Preis.Ĭlick here to view the live event stream recording. This event is sponsored by the German Consulate General New York.NORA KRUG‘s memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home (foreign edition title Heimat), about WWII and her own German family history was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018, as one of The Guardian’s 50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018 and Best Books of 2018, as an NPR Book of the Year 2018,Īs one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Memoirs of 2018 as one of Time Magazine’s 8 Must-Read Books you May Have Missed in 2018, one of the San Fransisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2018, one of The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2018, and for the January 2019 SWR Bestenliste. Nora Krug is the author of a bestselling graphic memoir titled 'Heimat,' which looks into her familys involvement in World War II. She is also an Associate professor of Illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Nora Krug provides some context for her uncle’s school essay in Heimat. Her graphic novel Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, 2019 Schubart-Literaturpreis, and 2019 Evangelischer Buchpreis. Nora Krug, nacida en 1977 en Karlsruhe, Baden, vive y trabaja como escritora e ilustradora en Nueva York. Nora Krug is a German–American author and illustrator, whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and A Public Space, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon and Schuster, and Chronicle Books. Her drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Guardian and le Monde Diplomatique, and in a number of anthologies. Her extraordinary quest, spanning continents and generations, pieces together her family’s troubling story and reflects on what it means to be a German of her generation. Nora Krug is a German-American author, illustrator and associate professor in the Illustration Program at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. This highly inventive visual memoir-equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative – returns Nora to her hometown, where she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier in Italy.

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Join us as Maiken Scott of WHYY-FM's The Pulse interviews fellow Karlsruhe native Nora Krug about her book Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home. Lucy Ellman who has written the novel, Ducks, Newburyport, suspects the.

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