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Henning Ahrens (born 1964 in Peine, Germany) is a writer and literary translator. He studied English, History and Art History in Göttingen, London and Kiel. In 1995 he gained his doctorate at the University of Kiel. In his poems he looks for the “right words”, finding which should enable him to describe situations and feelings as he actually sees and experiences them, regardless of social or artistic patterns or models.
Prizes/distinctions:
Wolfgang Weyrauch Promotion Prize (1999), Promotion Prize in the Nicolas Born Prize of the State of Lower Saxony (2000), Friedrich Hebbel Prize (2001), Nicolas Born Prize (2009)
Publications:
John Cowper Powys' Elementalismus. Eine Lebensphilosophie. (doctoral thesis. Frankfurt am Main 1997)Lieblied was kommt. Poem (998)Stoppelbrand Poems (2000)Lauf Jäger lauf! Novel (2002)Langsamer Walzer. Novel (2004)Tiertage. Novel (2007)Kein Schlaf in Sicht. Poems (2008)