Anja Kampmann (born 1983) is a German poet and author.

Biography

Kampmann was born in 1983 in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

. She studied at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

and at the

German Institute for Literature The German Institute for Literature (German: ''Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig'', DLL) is a part of Leipzig University and offers university education for writers. It was founded in 1955 under the name Johannes R. Becher-Institut, at that time ...

() in Leipzig. She also attended the renowned

International Writing Program The International Writing Program (IWP) is a writing residency for international artists in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Since 2014, the program offers online courses to many writers and poets around the world. Since its inception in 1967, the I ...

at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized int ...

with a scholarship, then start of a dissertation on

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

's later prose (musicality & silence) as well as work for the radio. Since 2011, she has been working for

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and NZZ, among others. Her poetry has been published in numerous German publications. Her debut collection ''Proben von Stein und Licht'' appeared in 2016 in Edition Lyrik. Her first novel ''Wie hoch die Wasser steigen'' (''High As The Waters Rise'', translated by Anne Posten) has received widespread acclaim, and has won many prizes among them the and the Lessing Prize (Förderpreis). It was shortlisted for the

National Book Award for Translated Literature The National Book Award for Translated Literature, is one of five annual National Book Awards in the USA, recognising outstanding literary works of translation into English and administered by the National Book Foundation. This award was previousl ...

in 2020. In 2021 she published her second collection of poetry ''Der Hund ist immer hungrig'' (the dog is always hungry) which was widely acclaimed. She lives in

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Works

* 2016: * 2018: * 2019: English translation by Anne Posten.Briefly reviewed in th
September 21, 2020 issue
of ''

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'', p.67. * 2021:

Awards

* 2010: Scholarship “International Writing Program” University of Iowa * 2013: 1st Prize MDR Literature Prize * 2014: Feldkircher Poetry Prize (2nd prize) * 2015: Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize * 2017: Artist in Residence at in Winterthur * 2017: Finalist

Alfred Döblin Prize The Alfred Döblin Prize () is a German literary award. Named after Alfred Döblin, it was endowed by Günter Grass in 1979. The prize is awarded every two years jointly by the Academy of Arts, Berlin and the :de:Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Li ...

* 2018: Nomination for the

Leipzig Book Fair Prize The Leipzig Book Fair Prize () is a literary award assigned annually during the Leipzig Book Fair The Leipzig Book Fair () is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days a ...

( Fiction ) with ''High as the waters rise'' * 2018: Nomination for the

German Book Prize The German Book Prize () is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association () to the best new German-language novel of the year. The books, published in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are nominated by their ...

(longlist) with ''High as the waters rise'' * 2018: Finalist in the

Aspekte-Literaturpreis The Aspekte-Literaturpreis (''Aspekte'' Literature Prize) is awarded annually for the best debut novel written in German, as judged by a panel of writers, critics, and scholars. The prize is sponsored by the ZDF television network through its arts ...

with ''High As The Waters Rise'' * 2018: Literature Prize of the Lüneburg District for ''High As The Waters Rise'' * 2018: for ''High as the waters rise'' * 2019:

Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony The Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony is a German literary award. It was founded in 1993 by the Government of the Free State of Saxony and is awarded every two years. It consists of a main prize, which honours outstanding achievements in t ...

(sponsorship prize) * 2019/2020:

Stadtschreiber von Bergen The Stadtschreiber von Bergen ('City clerk of Bergen') is an annual German literary award. The prize money is €20,000 with one year of free living in the town clerk's house in Bergen-Enkheim, Frankfurt, "An der Oberpforte 4". It was the first S ...

* 2020: ''High as the Waters Rise''. Translation of Anne Posten. Shortlisted for the

National Book Award The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. ...

. * 2020: Rainer Malkowski Prize of the

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(together with

Norbert Hummelt Norbert Hummelt (born 30 December 1962 in Neuss) is a German poet, essayist and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language ...

)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kampmann, Anja 1983 births Living people Writers from Hamburg German women poets German women novelists 21st-century German novelists 21st-century German poets German-language poets