We’re so proud to announce that Sigrid Nunez has been awarded one of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes. Started in 2013, the Windham-Campbell prizes aim to support eight writers’ work and allow them to focus on their creative practice independent of financial concerns, recognising literary achievement across four categories – fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. With annual prize money exceeding $1.4m, they are one of the most significant prizes in the world.

Sigrid Nunez is the author of ten books, including the National Book Award-winning novel The Friend (2018), which has been celebrated by the New York Times as one of the 100 best books of the 21st Century.  In her recent work, including The Vulnerables (2023) and What Are You Going Through (2020), Nunez’s unnamed narrators engage with grief and loss.

Commenting on Sigrid’s work, the judges said, ‘with each careful, concise novel, Sigrid Nunez scrupulously dissects the ethical complications of authorship, while still enacting—soulfully, quietly, paradoxically—the visceral and emotional force of character and story.’