Jan Wagner (poet) explained

Awards:Georg Büchner Prize
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
Notable Works:Regentonnenvariationen

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.[1] 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.[2] In 2001, his first volume of poetry "Probebohrung im Himmel" was published.[3] 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".[4]

Since 1995 he lives in Berlin.

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Further reading

Notes and References

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