Creative Writing Program Instructor Sigrid Nunez Wins National Book Award
Writer-in-Residence Sigrid Nunez has won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Friend, a New York Times best seller. Nunez has taught MFA students in the Creative Writing Program since 2011. The Friend is her eighth book. Along with the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award is considered the highest literary honor a published work can receive in a given year.