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Uljana Wolf (c) Kai Nedden / Robert Bosch Stiftung
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Uljana Wolf (born in Berlin in 1979) won the Peter Huchel Prize for her first collection of poems in 2006. Researching between languages plays a major role in her poems, in which she outlines what cannot be translated with clear forms. Living today in New York and Berlin, she explores political issues of identity, migration and language policy in her texts on migration between languages and cultures. Her poems have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Her texts are instruments of understanding, with their precision of sound, experimental forms and stylistic concretion of the sensual. Not only her own poems but also her translations, mainly from American and Polish, have brought her to the fore . In 2009 she co-edited the renowned annual anthology Jahrbuch der Lyrik.
Publications:
meine schönste lengevitch. kookbooks 2013
Box Office. Münchner Reden zur Poesie 8. Stiftung LyrikKabinett 2009
falsche freunde. kookbooks 2009
kochanie ich habe brot gekauft. kookbooks 2005
In English:
false friends, translated by Susan Bernofsky, ugly duckling presse, New York, 2011
Awards (selection):
Adelbert von Chamisso Prize 2016
Erlanger Literature Prize for Poetry as Translation 2015
Wolfgang Weyrauch Promotion Prize 2013
Dresden Poetry Prize (jointly with Viola Fischerová) 2006
Peter Huchel Prize 2006