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

Wagner was born in

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

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. He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin, and graduated from

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, and at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

. In 2008, he was Max Kade German Writer in Residence at

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. 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 (

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, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), a freelance reviewer (

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and others) and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element". Since 1995, he lives in Berlin.

Awards (selection)

* 2001: Förderpreis Hermann-Hesse-Preis * 2004: Anna Seghers Prize * 2004: Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize * 2010: Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome * 2011: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Tübingen * 2011: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis * 2015: Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach * 2015: Leipzig Book Fair Prize * 2017: Georg Büchner Prize * 2017: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize of the University of Peking * 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 *

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, Frankfurt, Paulskirche in Frankfurt. I ...

* Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste *

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur The Academy of Sciences and Literature () is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to support science and literature, and in doing so to help preserve and pr ...

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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