The late-life magic of novelist Sigrid Nunez: ‘My books weren’t getting the attention they deserved’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

The late-life magic of novelist Sigrid Nunez: ‘My books weren’t getting the attention they deserved’

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The way Sigrid Nunez tells it, she simply got lucky. The actor Natalie Portman called her “one of my favourite authors”, as did the British singer Laura Marling; Anne Enright argued that, “once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don’t look back”. “I remember the writer Michael Cunningham saying recently that he didn’t understand how anyone can write something set in our time and not mention the pandemic,” Nunez says. open image in gallery ‘The Vulnerables’ reads less like a novel and more like an extended roam around its author’s beguilingly cluttered thoughts “No! “They prefer a much more straightforward narrative.” And so, though she’s been writing since adolescence, she didn’t land her first publishing deal until the age of 42.

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