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Judith Zander (c) Yawan Rai
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Judith Zander (born in Anklam in 1980) is a writer and translator. She studied German and English with Mediaeval and Modern History in Greifswald, before attending the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Her first collection of poems, oder tau (or dew) was published in 2011, followed in 2014 by manual numerale (manual numerals). Judith Zander translates writers such as Bob Hicok and Sylvia Plath. For her work she has been awarded the open mike competition poetry prize in 2007 and in 2009 the Wolfgang Weyrauch Promotion Prize. Her first novel, Dinge, die wir heute sagten (Things We Said Today) won her the 2010 Prize of the Sinecure Landsdorf and the 3sat Prize and a nomination for the German Book Prize. She was awarded the Poetry Prize of the Cultural Group of German Industry in 2015 for her collection manual numerale. Judith Zander lives in Berlin.
Publications:
Cactaceae. Naturkunden. Matthes & Seitz 2014
manual numerale. Poems. dtv 2014
oder tau. Poems. dtv 2011
Dinge, die wir heute sagten. Novel. dtv 2010