Jan Wagner (born 18 October 1971), is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the

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and

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Life

Wagner was born in

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, and grew up north of it, in the small town of Ahrensburg in

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. 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 (

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, James Tate,

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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.

Awards

* 2001: Förderpreis Hermann-Hesse-Preis * 2004: Anna Seghers Prize * 2010:

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Scholarship, Rome * 2011: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Tübingen * 2011: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis * 2015: Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach * 2015:

* 2017:

* 2017: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize of the

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* 2020/2021: Poetik-Professur an der Universität Bamberg (33rd poetics professor at the

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). * 2021: PONT Euro-Mediterranean literary prize, Koper/Capodistria, Slovenia

Memberships

PEN Centre Germany PEN Centre Germany is part of the worldwide association of writers founded in London in 1921, now known as PEN International. One of over 140 autonomous PEN centres around the world, PEN Centre Germany is based in Darmstadt, Hesse. Work PEN C ...

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, ...

Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in München (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts) is an association of renowned personalities in Munich, Bavaria. It was founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948, continuing a tradition established in 1808 by ...

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

Mainz

Works

* ''Probebohrung im Himmel.'' Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001, . * ''Guerickes Sperling.'' Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004, . * ''Achtzehn Pasteten.'' Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007, . * ''Australien.'' Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, . * ''Die Sandale des Propheten.'' Essays. Berlin Verlag. Berlin 2011, . * ''Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern. Drei Verborgene.'' Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2012, . * ''Poesiealbum 295.'' Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst 2011, . * ''Der verschlossene Raum.'' Münchner Reden zur Poesie. Herausgegeben von Maria Gazzetti und Frieder von Ammon, Lyrik Kabinett München, 2012. . * ''Regentonnenvariationen.'' Gedichte. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2014, . * ''Selbstporträt mit Bienenschwarm. Ausgewählte Gedichte 2001–2015.'' Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2016, . * ''Der verschlossene Raum. Beiläufige Prosa.'' Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2017, . * Contributor to ''A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (''Gingko Library, 2019), . * ''Der glückliche Augenblick. Beiläufige Prosa.'' Essays. Hanser Berlin, Berlin 2021, .

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