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Nora Krug is a German-American author and artist. Her books were published in 21 countries, and her illustrations have been recognized with gold and silver medals by both the Society of Illustrators and the NY Art Directors Club. Krug is a recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and the American Academy Berlin. Her books are included in the Library of Congress and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Krug was named Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year and 2019 Book Illustration Prize Winner by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, the Art Directors Club Gold and Discipline Winner Cubes, 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, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and one of Germany’s Most Beautiful Books of 2022. "Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia", her book of graphic journalism that chronicles the contrasting experiences of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist, both grappling with the realities of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the Overseas Press Club’s Best Cartoon Award runner-up citation and was named one of Germany’s Most Beautiful Books of 2024. Her visual biography, "Kamikaze," about a surviving Japanese WWII pilot, was included in Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and Best Non-Required Reading, and her animations were shown at the Sundance Film Festival. 

Degrees Held

B.A. (hons) in Performance Design, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Diplom in Visual Communication, University of Arts Berlin

M.F.A. in Illustration as a Visual Essay, School of Visual Arts New York

Professional Affiliation

Society of Illustrators

PEN Berlin

Recent Publications

"Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2023)

"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2021)

"Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home" (Scribner, 2018)

Research Interests

Illustration, Non-Fiction Narrative, Graphic Novel, Visual Politics

Awards And Honors

National Book Critics Circle Award, American Academy Berlin Fellowship, Yale University Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Victoria and Albert Illustrator of the Year Award, Pollock Krasner Grant, Fulbright Fellowship, Society of Illustrators Gold and Silver Medals, Art Directors Club Gold and Silver Cubes, Chosen for the Sundance Film Festival, the Library of Congress, and editions of Houghton Mifflin's Best American series.

Portfolio

http://www.nora-krug.com/