Ann Cotten (born 1982 in

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) is an American-born Austrian writer.

Life and work

At the age of five, Cotten moved to

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with her parents, who are both biochemists who worked in Vienna. She finished university there in 2006 with a work about

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. At the same time she first emerged as a poet at

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. In 2007 Cotten, whose work has been published in anthologies and poetry journals, found considerable success as a writer with her first book, ''Fremdwörterbuchsonnette'', which was published at

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. Other books with Suhrkamp are ''Florida-Räume'' in 2001, ''Der schaudernde Fächer'' in 2013, ''Verbannt! Versepos'' in 2016. Some of Cotten's poems have been translated into English and published in journals like ''burning deck'' (USA). In 2010 she collaborated with visual artist

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in a book called ''I, Coleoptile'' containing original English poetry and film stills, published by

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. The book ''Lather in Heaven'', published by the same editor in 2016, assembles her work in English up to date, as well as some selected translations from the German. In 2016, ''Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa'', was published by the

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. It contains a selection of Cotten's poems and prose, inspired by Japan,

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, and the semiotics of the Japanese language. ''Fast Dumm, Essays von on the road'' is a reflecting book about visiting the United States, including poems, essays, photographies and her own translations of poems of other poets, like

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. The book was published by

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in 2017. Cotten lives in Vienna and in Berlin. She relinquished US citizenship in 2005.

Publications

* ''Fremdwörterbuchsonette'', poetry, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main 2007, . * ''Nach der Welt. Die Listen der konkreten Poesie und ihre Folgen.'', essay, Klever, Vienna 2008, . * ''Glossarattrappen'', prose, AusnahmeVerlag, Hamburg 2008, . * ''Das Pferd.'' SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2009 (Schöner Lesen Nr. 84), . * ''Florida-Räume'', poetry, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main 2010, . * ''Helm aus Phlox. Zur Theorie des schlechtesten Werkzeugs''. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2011, . * ''Pflock in der Landschaft'', Schock Edition (1), EdK/Distillery, Berlin 2011, . * ''I, Coleoptile'', poetry (English), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin 2010, . * ''Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa.'' Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim/Rhön 2016, . * ''Lather in Heaven!'' (English), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin 2016, . * ''Fast Dumm'', Essays von on the road, Starfruit Publications, Fürth 2017, . * ''Lyophilia'', Erzählungen, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, .

Honors

* 2007: Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis * 2008: George-Saiko-Reisestipendium * 2008: Clemens-Brentano-Preis * 2012: Newcomer award of the Hermann-Hesse-Preis * 2014: Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis * 2014: Wilhelm-Lehmann-Preis * 2015: Newcomer award of the Ernst-Bloch-Preis * 2015: Klopstock-Preis * 2017: Hugo-Ball-Preis * 2017: Elected into the Berlin Academy Arts * 2018: Stipend for the

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', Villa Aurora, July 14, 2017, retrieved July 15, 2017.

References

External links

Ann Cotten on the website of Suhrkamp-publishing (german)

Website for "Lather in Heaven"

Review of I,Coleoptile in English from De Reactor

Ann Cotten on the website of Peter Engstler Verlag (german)

Ann Cotten on the website of starfruit publications (german)

Click: A Conversation with Ann Cotten (Interview in English and German), ''Cordite Poetry Review''

Article on the book ''Florida-Räume''
in the German weekly news magazine

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Interview in English with Ann Cotten at 3AM Magazine

review of the English translation

Entry at Poetry International Web
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