Jan Wagner

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 Hamburg, He studied English (Anglistics) in Hamburg, Dublin and Berlin, and graduated from Hamburg University, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2001, his first volume of poetry Probebohrung im Himmel was published. Wagner's poems have been translated into thirty languages.

Since 1995, he lives in Berlin. 2004: Anna Seghers Prize 2011: Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Tübingen 2017: Georg Büchner Prize 2017: Zhongkun International Poetry Prize of the University of Peking

Memberships PEN Centre Germany 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.