Jan Wagner (poet)
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Jan Wagner (born 18 October 1971), is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Life
Wagner was born in Hamburg,[1] and grew up north of it, in the small town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein.[2] He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin, and graduated from Hamburg University, and at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College.[3] In 2001 his first volume of poetry "Probebohrung im Himmel" was published.[4] Wagner's poems have been translated into thirty languages.[2] Wagner has been translator of English-language poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), freelance reviewer (Frankfurter Rundschau and others) and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element".[5]
Since 1995, he lives in Berlin.[1]
Awards
- 2001: Förderpreis Hermann-Hesse-Preis[6]
- 2004: Anna Seghers Prize[6]
- 2010: Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome[7]
- 2011: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Tübingen[6]
- 2011: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis[7]
- 2015: Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach[6]
- 2015: Leipzig Book Fair Prize[1]
- 2017: Georg Büchner Prize[1][8][9]
- 2017: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize of the University of Peking[6]
- 2020/2021: Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg (33rd poetics professor at the University of Bamberg).[4]
Memberships
- PEN Centre Germany[2]
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung[2]
- Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste[2]
- Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz[2]
Works
- Probebohrung im Himmel. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-8270-0071-2.
- Guerickes Sperling. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-8270-0091-0.
- Achtzehn Pasteten. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0721-6.
- Australien. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0951-7.
- Die Sandale des Propheten. Essays. Berlin Verlag. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1047-6.
- Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern. Drei Verborgene. Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24030-8.
- Poesiealbum 295. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst 2011, ISBN 978-3-931329-95-2.
- Der verschlossene Raum. Münchner Reden zur Poesie. Herausgegeben von Maria Gazzetti und Frieder von Ammon, Lyrik Kabinett München, 2012. ISBN 978-3-938776-32-2.
- Regentonnenvariationen. Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24646-1.
- Selbstporträt mit Bienenschwarm. Ausgewählte Gedichte 2001–2015. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25075-8.[10]
- Der verschlossene Raum. Beiläufige Prosa. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25475-6.
- Contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019), ISBN 978-1-909942-28-8.
- Der glückliche Augenblick. Beiläufige Prosa. Essays. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-446-26943-9.[11]
References
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