11-573: Name list Sigrid Gender Female Origin Language(s) Old Norse Meaning "Victory" and "Beautiful" Region of origin Scandinavia Other names Alternative spelling Siri Variant form(s) Siiri Short form(s) Sig Nickname(s) Sigge Pet form (s) Sigi Related names Zigrīda Sigrid / ˈ s iː ɡ r ɪ d /
22-850: A Whiting Writer's Award , a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Rome Prize in Literature. Nunez is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . She was a James Merrill F ellow in December 2018-January 2019. She has taught at Columbia , Princeton , Boston University , and the New School , and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst , Smith , Baruch , Vassar , Syracuse , and
33-553: A German chemist Sigrid Elmblad (1860 – 1926), a Swedish journalist and poet Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér) , a Swedish noble Sigrid Fick , a Swedish tennis player Sigrid af Forselles (1860—1935), Finnish sculptor Sigrid Fronius (1942), German author, journalist and feminist Sigrid Fry-Revere , American bioethicist Sigrid Augusta Green (1920–2012), was a British code breaker, Norwegian resistance member Sigrid Gurie , Norwegian-American actress Sigrid Grajek (1963), German actor and cabaret actress. Sigrid
44-831: Is a Scandinavian given name for women from Old Norse Sigríðr , composed of the elements sigr "victory" and fríðr "beautiful". Common short forms include Siri , Sigga, Sig, and Sigi. An Estonian and Finnish variant is Siiri . The Latvian version of the name is Zigrīda. People [ edit ] Sigrid (singer) , Norwegian singer Princess Sigrid of Sweden , Swedish princess Sigrid Alegría , Chilean actress Sigrid Alexandersen (born 1995), Norwegian orienteer Sigrid Agren , French fashion model Sigrid Banér , Swedish letter writer Sigrid Björkegren (1845 – 1936), Swedish entrepreneur Sigrid Borge (born 1995), Norwegian javelin thrower Sigrid Brahe , Swedish countess Sigrid Brattabø Handegard (born 1963), Norwegian politician Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff ,
55-568: Is an American writer, best known for her novels. Her seventh novel, The Friend , won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction . Sigrid Nunez was born and raised in New York City , the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. She received her BA from Barnard College (1972) and her MFA from Columbia University (1975), after which she worked for a time as an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books . Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on
66-463: Is different from Wikidata CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv) All set index articles Siiri Siiri is an Estonian and Finnish feminine given name derived from the Old Norse name Sigríðr. It is a cognate of the modern Scandinavian name Sigrid . People named Siiri include: Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez (born 1951)
77-544: The London Review of Books , Harper's Weekly , and The Wall Street Journal . Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature. One of her short stories was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019. Nunez, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , is also the recipient of
88-574: The University of California, Irvine , among others. Nunez has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and of several other writers' conferences across the country. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in New York City. In 2024, two of her novels were adapted into films. The duo Siegel & McGehee adapted her novel The Friend into
99-468: The Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend , What Are You Going Through , and, most recently, The Vulnerables. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Among the journals to which Nunez has contributed are The New Yorker , The New York Times , The New York Review of Books , The Paris Review , Harper's , McSweeney's , The Believer , The Threepenny Review ,
110-2010: The Haughty , Swedish, possibly Slavic, queen of Sweden, Denmark, and England Sigrid Helliesen Lund (1892–1987), Norwegian peace activist Sigrid Hjertén , Swedish painter Sigrid Hjørnegård (born 1965), Norwegian politician Sigrid Holmquist , Swedish actress Sigrid Holmwood , British artist Sigrid Hunke , German author Sigrid Huun (born 1952), Norwegian actress Sigrid Kaag , Dutch diplomat and politician Sigrid Kirchmann , Austrian high jumper Sigrid Kruse (1867–1950), Swedish educator, children's writer and suffragist Sigrid Lidströmer , Swedish novelist Sigrid Moldestad (born 1972), Norwegian folk singer and musician Sigrid Nunez , American novelist Sigrid Sepp , Estonian swimmer Sigrid Schmidt (born 1930), German ethnologist and folklorist Sigrid Schultz , American war correspondent Sigrid Sparre , Swedish lady-in-waiting Sigrid Stray (1893–1978), Norwegian barrister and women's rights proponent Sigrid Sture , Swedish governor Sigrid Thornton , Australian actress Sigrid Bonde Tusvik (born 1980), Norwegian television presenter and entertainer Sigrid Undset , Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Valdis , American actress Sigrid Wille , German skier Sigrid Wolf , Austrian skier Other meanings [ edit ] 1493 Sigrid , an asteroid Storm Sigrid , in Britain and Ireland in November 2024 See also [ edit ] Sigríður Siri (software) Sigurd References [ edit ] ^ Svenska namn - Allt för föräldrar (in Swedish) ^ "SIGRID GREEN" . Lancashire Telegraph . Retrieved 2023-10-25 . External links [ edit ] "All for Parents: Sigrid" (in Swedish). Archived from
121-842: The original on 2008-07-20 . Retrieved 2008-02-11 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link ) " Sigrid ", BehindTheName.com . [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sigrid&oldid=1259097136 " Categories : Given names Scandinavian feminine given names Swedish feminine given names German feminine given names Norwegian feminine given names Feminine given names Old Norse personal names Hidden categories: Articles with Swedish-language sources (sv) Articles with short description Short description
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