Judith Zander
{{Short description|German poet and translator (born 1980)}}
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Judith Zander (born 13 November 1980) is a German writer and translator.{{Cite web |title=Judith Zander - Autorenlexikon |url=https://www.literaturport.de/lexikon/judith-zander/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=www.literaturport.de}}
Life
Zander studied German and English studies as well as History in Greifswald. Subsequently, she studied creative writing at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She works as a translator and has translated several books by Sylvia Plath, among others. Her own writing includes prose and poetry. For her debut novel, Zander was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2010.{{Cite web |title=Archiv |url=https://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=www.deutscher-buchpreis.de}} Her work has won her numerous awards. For her poetry collection, im ländchen sommer im winter zur see (In the Countryside Summer in Winter at Sea), she won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2023. She is a member of the PEN Centre Germany.
Zander lives in Jüterbog.{{Cite web |date=6 October 2021 |title=Fontane-Preisträgerin 2021 Judith Zander "Johnny Ohneland" - Jüterbog |url=https://www.jueterbog.eu/veranstaltungen/2238773/2021/10/06/www.jueterbog.eu/veranstaltungen/2238773/2021/10/06/judith-zander-johnny-ohneland.html |access-date=1 May 2024 |website=www.jueterbog.eu |language=de}}
Works
- Dinge, die wir heute sagten. Roman. dtv, München 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-423-24794-8}}.
- oder tau. Gedichte. dtv, München 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-423-24862-4}}.
- manual numerale. Gedichte. dtv, München 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-423-26004-6}}.
- Cactaceae. Sachbuch. With photographies by Johanna Ruebel. Matthes & Seitz (= Naturkunden, Vol. 14), Berlin 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-95757-029-1}}.
- Wanderungen. Literarische Erkundungen auf den Spuren von Theodor Fontane. Essays. In collaboration with Thomas Hettche and Ingo Schulze. With drawings by Matthias Beckmann. Edition Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin 2019, {{ISBN|978-3-944007-09-0}}
- Johnny Ohneland. Roman. dtv, München 2020, {{ISBN|978-3-423-28235-2}}.
- im ländchen sommer im winter zur see. Gedichte und Fotografien. dtv, München 2022, {{ISBN|978-3-423-29010-4}}.
Translations
- Bob Hicok: Umstellung auf Rehzeit. Gedichte. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-939557-47-0}}.
- Sylvia Plath: Der Koloss. Gedichte. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-518-42380-6}}.
- Sylvia Plath: Über das Wasser/Crossing the Water. Nachgelassene Gedichte/Posthumous Poems. Bilingual edition. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-939557-29-6}}.
- Maya Angelou: Phänomenale Frauen. Gedichte. Zweisprachig. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020, {{ISBN|978-3-518-47098-5}}.
- Sylvia Plath: Das Herz steht nicht still. Späte Gedichte 1960–1963. Bilingual edition. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2022, {{ISBN|978-3-518-22541-7}}.
Awards
- 2007: Poetry Prize at the 15th open mike competition of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
- 2009: Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize at the Literarischer März competition in Darmstadt
- 2010: Prize of the Sinecure Landsdorf for her novel, Dinge, die wir heute sagten (Things we said today)
- 2010: 3sat Prize at the Festival of German-Language Literature for an excerpt of her novel Dinge, die wir heute sagten (Things we said today){{Cite web |title=Wawerzinek gewinnt Bachmannpreis 2010 - oesterreich.ORF.at |url=https://ktnv1.orf.at/stories/452314 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=ktnv1.orf.at}}
- 2011: Uwe Johnson Prize (advancement award) of the Mecklenburg Literature Society{{Cite web |last=von |date=13 June 2017 |title=2011 – Judith Zander. Förderpreisträgerin für ihren Debütroman "Dinge, die wir heute sagten" – Uwe-Johnson-Preis |url=https://www.uwejohnsonpreis.de/2017/06/13/2011-judith-zander-foerderpreistraegerin-fuer-ihren-debuetroman-dinge-die-wir-heute-sagten/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |language=de-DE}}
- 2015: Poetry Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
- 2017: Anke Bennholdt-Thomsen Poetry Prize of the German Schiller Foundation
- 2021: Fontane Prize of the City of Neuruppin for her novel Johnny Ohneland (Johnny Lackland){{Cite news |last=dpa |date=20 August 2021 |title=Auszeichnungen: Judith Zander mit Fontane-Literaturpreis 2021 ausgezeichnet |url=https://www.zeit.de/news/2021-08/20/judith-zander-mit-fontane-literaturpreis-2021-ausgezeichnet |access-date=14 March 2024 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070}}
- 2023: Peter Huchel Prize for her poetry collection, im ländchen sommer im winter zur see (In the Countryside Summer in Winter at Sea){{Cite web |last=SWR2 |date=3 April 2023 |title=Judith Zander erhält den Peter-Huchel-Preis 2023 |url=https://www.swr.de/swr2/literatur/peter-huchel-preis-100.html |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=swr.online |language=de}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.dtv.de/autor/judith-zander-9563 Judith Zander] at the dtv publishing house
- [https://www.literaturport.de/lexikon/judith-zander/ Dictionary entry] of Judith Zander at the [https://www.literaturport.de/ dictionary of authors] of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
- [https://www.fr.de/kultur/literatur/judith-zander-im-laendchen-sommer-im-winter-zur-see-melusine-weiss-bescheid-91439027.html Review] by Michael C. Braun of im ländchen sommer im winter zur see in the Frankfurter Rundschau
- [https://www.lyrikline.org/de/gedichte/grundlegende-7723 Poems of Judith Zander] at lyrikline.org in German, Arabic and Estonian (Haus für Poesie Berlin)
- [https://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/druckfrisch/videos/zander-johnny-ohneland-video-100.html Interview with Judith Zander] in the ARD television broadcast [https://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/druckfrisch/index.html druckfrisch – Neue Bücher mit Denis Scheck]
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Category:21st-century German poets
Category:Leipzig University alumni