Galadinner 2025

Please save the date of October 6, 2026 for the LBI Gala honoring acclaimed novelist Nicole Krauss, the author of international bestsellers including Forest Dark, Great House (a finalist for the National Book Award), and The History of Love, among other books. Her work revolves around topics of memory, identity, loss, and trauma; through her novels, she has investigated the experience of exile and ways that texts and stories uphold cultural memory across generations.

Join us as we celebrate our shared commitment to preserving the past for the sake of the present and the future, at Temple Emanu-El, a storied institution of German-speaking Jewry in New York.

About the Honoree

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss has been called “one of American’s most important novelists and an international literary sensation” by the New York Times, “a contemporary master,” by Esquire, and “one of American’s greatest writers” by the Financial Times. She is the author of the international bestsellers, Forest Dark, Great House (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Her short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and were collected in To Be a Man, which received the Wingate Award. She was the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the Zuckerman Mind, Brain and Behavior Institute at Columbia University, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her books have been translated into 38 languages.