Nora Krug

Nora performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater on January 15, 2019, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Secrets and Lies.”

Nora Krug is a German-American author and illustrator. Krug is a recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service. Her visual memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, 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, as one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Memoirs of 2018, and as one of Time Magazine’s 8 Must-Read Books you May Have Missed in 2018. Her most recent work is the illustration for a graphic edition novel written by Timothy Snyder, titled, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

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