Jan Wagner (poet)
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| Notable works | Regentonnenvariationen |
| Notable awards | Georg Büchner Prize Leipzig Book Fair Prize |
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
[edit]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 is also a translator of English-language poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), a 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 (selection)
[edit]- 2001: Förderpreis Hermann-Hesse-Preis[6]
- 2004: Anna Seghers Prize[6]
- 2004: Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize
- 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]
- 2021: PONT Euro-Mediterranean literary prize, Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia[10]
Memberships
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.[11]
- 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.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Jan Wagner – Autoren". Hanser Literaturverlage (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Jan Wagner – Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). 13 March 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Jan Wagner". Poetry Foundation. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ a b "2020/21 – Jan Wagner". Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Jan Wagner – Zur Person". Poetenladen (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Neuer Poetikdozent Jan Wagner". Hochschule RheinMain (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Jan Wagner". Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ Deutsche Welle. "Top German literature prize goes to poet Jan Wagner | Books | DW | 20 June 2017". DW.COM. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ Bartels, Gerrit (20 June 2017). "Ein Virtuose der Sprache aus Neukölln". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "German poet Jan Wagner to receive Pont literary prize". 18 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
- ^ May, Nina (24 November 2017). "Selbstporträt mit Bienen". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ ""Der glückliche Augenblick"". oe1.orf.at (in German). 25 February 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- Weber, Antje (9 February 2018). "Im Rausch der Sprachwirren". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
External links
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