To mark the release of her first book in English, my cadastre, printed by Nor By Press in Northampton, Schoen Books presents a bilingual reading by Uljana Wolf at the old firehouse on Thursday, April 23 at 8 o’clock.
Uljana Wolf was born in 1979 in East Berlin. She studied German literature, English, and cultural studies, in Berlin and Krakow. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Europe and North America, such as Edit, Das Gedicht, kursywa, Poetry Ireland Review, Lyrik von Jetzt (Dumont, 2003), New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008), Dichten #10 (Burning Deck, 2008). For her first volume of poetry, kochanie ich habe brot gekauft (kookbooks, 2005), Wolf was awarded the prestigious Peter-Huchel-Preis and the Dresdner Lyrikpreis (both 2006). She recently received the RAI Medienpreis at Lyrikpreis Meran (2008) and a grant from the Deutsche Literaturfonds. She translates numerous poets into German, among them Matthea Harvey, Christian Hawkey, Erín Moure, Breyten Breytenbach, and was the co-editor of the 2009 Jahrbuch der Lyrik (Fischer Verlag).
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