Jan Wagner (poet)


Jan Wagner 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. He studied English 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 is also a translator of English-language poetry, a freelance reviewer and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element".
Since 1995, he lives in Berlin.

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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,.