German author and translator (born 1971)
Jan Wagner (born 18 October 1971) is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of theGeorg Büchner Prize andLeipzig Book Fair Prize .
Wagner was born inHamburg ,[ 1] and grew up north of it, in the small town ofAhrensburg inSchleswig-Holstein .[ 2] He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin, and graduated fromHamburg University , and atTrinity College, Dublin .[ 2] In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence atOberlin College .[ 3] In 2001, his first volume of poetryProbebohrung 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]
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 toA 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]
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