Judith Zander

Judith Zander (born 13 November 1980) is a German writer and translator.

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. 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.

Works

Dinge, die wir heute sagten. Roman. dtv, München 2010. oder tau. Gedichte. dtv, München 2011. manual numerale. Gedichte. dtv, München 2014. Cactaceae. Sachbuch. With photographies by Johanna Ruebel. Matthes & Seitz (= Naturkunden, Vol. 14), Berlin 2014. 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, Johnny Ohneland. Roman. dtv, München 2020. im ländchen sommer im winter zur see. Gedichte und Fotografien. dtv, München 2022.

Translations

Bob Hicok: Umstellung auf Rehzeit. Gedichte. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013. Sylvia Plath: Der Koloss. Gedichte. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013. Sylvia Plath: Über das Wasser/Crossing the Water. Nachgelassene Gedichte/Posthumous Poems. Bilingual edition. Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2013. Maya Angelou: Phänomenale Frauen. Gedichte. Zweisprachig. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020. Sylvia Plath: Das Herz steht nicht still. Späte Gedichte 1960–1963. Bilingual edition. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2022.

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) 2011: Uwe Johnson Prize (advancement award) of the Mecklenburg Literature Society 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) 2023: Peter Huchel Prize for her poetry collection, im ländchen sommer im winter zur see (In the Countryside Summer in Winter at Sea)