Uljana Wolf Explained

Uljana Wolf
Birth Date:	6 April 1979
Birth Place:	East Berlin, East Germany
Occupation:	Poet, literary translator
Genre:	Poetry

Uljana Wolf (born 6 April 1979) is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work.

Biography

Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. She studied German studies, cultural studies and English literature in Berlin and Kraków.^[1] She teaches German at New York University.^[2] She works in both Berlin and New York.^[3]

Awards (selection)

• Peter-Huchel-Preis (2006)^[4]
• Dresdner Lyrikpreis (2006)
• Media Prize of the RAI broadcaster Bolzano at the Merano Poetry Prize (2008)
• Erlanger Prize for Poetry as Translation (2015)
• Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (2016)
• Villa Massimo fellowship (2017/2018)

Works in German

• Kochanie ich habe Brot gekauft. Gedichte. kookbooks (2005)^[5]
• Falsche Freunde. Gedichte. kookbooks (2009)
• Box Office. Stiftung Lyrik-Kabinett (2009)
• Sonne von Ort, a bilingual collaborative erasure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and their German translations by Rainer Maria Rilke, in collaboration with Christian Hawkey) (2012)
• Meine schönste Lengevitch. Prosagedichte. kookbooks (2013)

Works in English translation

• False Friends translated by Susan Bernofsky, Ugly Duckling Presse (2009)
• i mean i dislike that fate that i was made to where translated by Sophie Seita, Wonder (2015)
• Subsisters translated by Sophie Seita, Belladonna* (2017)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Uljana Wolf – Autorenlexikon . literaturport.de . 12 March 2014 . de . 18 July 2021.
2. http://german.as.nyu.edu/object/german.langinstructor.uwolf Bio
3. Web site: Uljana Wolf – DOPPELGEHERREDE . Studieren im Welterbe . de . 18 July 2021.
4. Web site: Uljana Wolf . Pratt Institute . 18 July 2021.
5. Web site: Über Uljana Wolf . Goethe Institut . 13 June 2021 . de . 18 July 2021.