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Jan Wagner (poet)






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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[edit]

Wagner was born in Hamburg,[1] and grew up north of it, in the small town of AhrensburginSchleswig-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 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".[5]

Since 1995 he lives in Berlin.[1]

Awards[edit]

Memberships[edit]

Works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
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