She is the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2018. She likes to write in the morning, at home or in the school library where she is teaching, (currently she is at Syracuse University) and works on only one project at at a time.Ī writer her entire life, she is pleased, I am sure to get recognized by The New York Times (they published an article with the headline, “With ‘The Friend’, Sigrid Nunez Becomes an Overnight Literary Sensation, 23 Years and Eight Books Later”). Nunez is a big reader, and could never envision herself living a happy life without it.
She enjoyed the freedom of going from thought to thought, and felt this form was liberating and easier to write than in any other way. Nunez chose to keep to the tone of a “hushed, intimate voice of someone writing a love letter” but did not write in a letter format. She did not do much research for this book most of the story was meditative as the reader is alway in the consciousness of the book’s narrator. Soon after, she was asked to do a 25 minute reading so she added on and she felt she had something of a novel developing so she just continued to the end. A while ago she had been asked to do a 10 minute reading so she wrote what turned out to be the beginning of The Friend. A true, lifelong writer for writing’s sake, not caught up in the business of marketing her work or following her reviews, Nunez seems focused on her craft, and just expressing herself and getting her story out of her head and onto the paper.Īccording to the author, her novel, The Friend just flowed and formed itself on its own without an outline or a plan. Fortunate to have had the opportunity to see her speak, I have not come across many authors who are as impressive, authentic and old school as Sigrid Nunez.
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