American novelist and critic

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her four novels Man Walks into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010) and Forest Dark (2017), which have been translated into 35 languages. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in The Best American Short Stories 2003, The Best American Short Stories 2008 and The Best American Short Stories 2019. In 2011, Nicole Krauss won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Great House. A collection of her short stories, To Be a Man, was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize in 2022.

Born

1974

August 18

Died

Living

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1970s

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1974 Born

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684 Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
707 Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei.
1304 The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
1487 The Siege of Málaga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.

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The world in 1974

When Nicole arrived

april 1 The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
april 22 Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
april 25 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the authoritarian-conservative Estado Novo regime.
april 27 One hundred nine people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.

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Ahad Ha'am 1856– Hebrew essayist and journalist and pre-state Zionist thinker (died 1927) Elizabeth Beisel 1992– American swimmer Everlast 1969– American singer, rapper, and musician Gail Fisher 1935–2000 American actress (died 2000) Godfrey Evans 1920–1999 English cricketer (died 1999) Inge Dekker 1985– Dutch swimmer Joanna Jędrzejczyk 1987– Polish mixed martial artist John Debney 1956– American composer and conductor Lavr Kornilov 1870–1918 Russian general (born 1870)

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Andrew Johns 1974– Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster Burn Gorman 1974– American-born English actor and musician Cameron McConville 1974– Australian racing driver and sportscaster Christian Paradis 1974– Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry Crowbar 1974– American wrestler Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974– American race car driver and actor Derek Jeter 1974– American baseball player Derrick Mason 1974– American football player Emilia Fox 1974– English actress

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