Welcome, Nora Krug, artist-in-residence at the Fortunoff Video Archive
Please join us in welcoming Nora Krug as a new fellow and artist-in-residence at the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Krug is a German-American author and illustrator whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies internationally, and in editions of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and Best Non-Required Reading. She is a recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Foundation, and others. Her illustrations have been recognized with gold and silver medals by the Society of Illustrators and the NY Art Directors Club, and her animations were shown at the Sundance Festival. Krug was named Illustrator of the Year 2019 by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Krug's visual memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home (Scribner, 2018), 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, and others. It was the winner of many awards, including the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and the British Book Design and Production Award. Her collaboration with historian Timothy Snyder, a graphic edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Ten Speed Press, 2021), a guide for resisting authoritarianism, 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, her recent 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.
Krug is Associate Professor of Illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. She holds a B.A. Honours degree in Performance Design from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a Diplom in Visual Communications from the University of Arts Berlin, and an M.F.A. in Illustration as a Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
During her tenure at Yale, Krug will be conducting research to produce an illustrated book based on materials at the Fortunoff Archive and witness testimony as part of a SSHRC grant project entitled Narrative Art and Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education.