Krug’s work has been exhibited internationally, and her animations were shown at the Sundance Film Festival. Krug was named Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year and 2019 Book Illustration Prize Winner by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Krug is a recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service. Krug’s drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and A Public Space. It was the winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award, of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, the Art Directors Club gold cube and discipline winner cube, and the British Book Design and Production Award. Krug's most recent work includes a graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny:Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which fuses Snyder's insights about on resisting authoritarianism with Krug's illustration and collage to represent the painful origins of these lessons.īelonging was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018, as one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2018, as an NPR Book of the Year 2018, as one of Kirkus Reviews ’ Best Memoirs of 2018 as one of Time Magazine’s 8 Must-Read Books you May Have Missed in 2018, one of the San Fransisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2018, and one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2018. As she confronts the past as a person who has not lived these painful events first hand, she asks urgent questions about how to remember the past in an honest and constructive way - a process that should be organic and ongoing.

In telling their stories she looks for the gaps, the facts and feelings that have been left unacknowledged and unstated, and why that might be so. She focuses on her grandfather, who worked for a Jewish employer and her uncle, an S.S.

She uses family archives, firsthand accounts and cultural relics to understand the decisions made by members of her family living in Germany during World War II. Led by Hanna Arendt’s quote “If all are guilty, no one is,” Krug’s story takes the form of an investigation. Nora Krug is a German-American author and illustrator based in New York whose visual memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home addresses history through the murkier experience of individuals - enablers, bystanders- rather than collective gestures and memorials.

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