Her graphic memoir Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, the 2019 Schubart-Literaturpreis, and the 2019 Evangelischer Buchpreis.

[1] Growing up in Karlsruhe provided what she has called "a political lession learned early", as the city is near France's Alsace region, where some towns keep old World War II tanks on display with their cannons pointed towards Germany.

[2] Krug attended a specialized middle and high school for classical music but chose to pursue a career in drawing at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.

[6] Not long after obtaining her Master's Degree, Krug met art director Monte Beauchamp, who invited her to submit work to his annual comics anthology BLAB!

[18] In March 2023, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts presented "Nora Krug: Belonging", an exhibition of visual art from the book, which would run through June.

The book, which is not told in the form of a narrative, but in a way that emphasizes ideas, afforded Krug to approach her art works more conceptually, as she explains, "attempting to add a poetic layer to Snyder's political texts.

This was a collection of Krug's series that ran in the Los Angeles Times, El País in Spain, L'Espresso in Italy, Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany, and De Volkskrant in Holland.