Nicole Krauss (Marshall Scholar 1996) Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced that Nicole Krauss, a Marshall Scholar from the class of 1996, has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Fiction.
Krauss is the author of The History of Love, Great House, Forest Dark, and To Be a Man, among other acclaimed works. Her fiction has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and has received numerous honors, including the Saroyan Prize, the Wingate Prize, and an appointment to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work often explores themes of identity, memory, and the intersection of the personal and the political.
“Through best-selling novels and short stories, Nicole Krauss explores provocative ideas about fragmentation, memory, identity, fiction, reality, and the wide range of form narration can take through our imagination,” noted Dr. Nell Breyer, Executive Director of the Association of Marshall Scholars.
Krauss’s essays and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, and The Paris Review, among others.
“Nicole’s Guggenheim Fellowship reflects the creative excellence and intellectual depth that Marshall Scholars bring to the arts and public life,” says Scott Grinsell, Board President of the Association of Marshall Scholars. “Nicole’s work challenges and expands our understanding of human experience, and we are delighted that her work will be supported with this distinguished Fellowship.”
As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, Krauss earned an M.Phil. in English Literature.
About the Association of Marshall Scholars
The Association of Marshall Scholars works to strengthen US-UK ties and also the Marshall Scholarship. Historically, the transatlantic alliance has served as a lynchpin for liberal democracy, prosperity and global peace. A valuable thread of this relationship has been the Marshall Scholarship, an educational program strengthening international exchange and advancement in nearly every field of human endeavor.