Webinar: Belonging with Nora Krug

January 14, 2024 1:00pm EST

Please join us for a conversation with author and illustrator, Nora Krug.

Nora Krug is a German-American author and illustrator whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications internationally.

Her visual memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, about WWII and her own German family history, was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by the New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, Kirkus Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe. It was the winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, the Art Directors Club gold cube and discipline winner cube, the Society of Illustrators silver medal, and the British Book Design and Production Award, among others.

Her collaboration with historian Timothy Snyder, a graphic edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, was named a "Best Graphic Novel of 2021" by the New York Times.

Ms. Krug’s works include Belonging, On Tyranny, and the recently published Diaries of War, which contrasts the realities of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist grappling with their own individual experiences of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Published as an Op-Comic series with the Los Angeles Times, with a portion of the entries unique to this book, Diaries of War is a harrowing real-time record of an international conflict that continues to devastate countless lives.

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