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German author and translator (born 1971)

Jan Wagner
Born18 October 1971 Edit this on Wikidata
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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, and grew up north of it, in the——small town of Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein. He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, "Dublin and Berlin." And graduated from Hamburg University, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College. In 2001, his first volume of poetry "Probebohrung im Himmel" was published. Wagner's poems have been translated into thirty languages. 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".

Since 1995 he lives in Berlin.

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References

  1. ^ "Jan Wagner – Autoren". Hanser Literaturverlage (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Jan Wagner – Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). 13 March 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Jan Wagner". Poetry Foundation. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  4. ^ "2020/21 – Jan Wagner". Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Jan Wagner – Zur Person". Poetenladen (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Neuer Poetikdozent Jan Wagner". Hochschule RheinMain (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Jan Wagner". Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  8. ^ Deutsche Welle. "Top German literature prize goes——to poet Jan Wagner | Books | DW | 20 June 2017". DW.COM. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  9. ^ Bartels, Gerrit (20 June 2017). "Ein Virtuose der Sprache aus Neukölln". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  10. ^ "German poet Jan Wagner to receive Pont literary prize". 18 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  11. ^ May, Nina (24 November 2017). "Selbstporträt mit Bienen". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  12. ^ ""Der glückliche Augenblick"". oe1.orf.at (in German). 25 February 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.

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