Ann Cotten
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Ann Cotten (born 1982, Ames, Iowa) is an American-born Austrian writer.
Life and work[]
At the age of five, Cotten moved to Vienna with her parents, who are both biochemists who worked in Vienna.[1] She finished university there in 2006 with a work about concrete poetry. At the same time she first emerged as a poet at poetry slams. In 2007 Cotten, whose work has been published in anthologies and poetry journals, found considerable success as a writer with her first book, Fremdwörterbuchsonnette, which was published at Suhrkamp. Other books with Suhrkamp are Florida-Räume in 2001, Der schaudernde Fächer in 2013, Verbannt! Versepos in 2016.[2]
Some of Cotten's poems have been translated into English and published in journals like burning deck (USA). In 2010 she collaborated with visual artist in a book called I, Coleoptile[3] containing original English poetry and film stills, published by Broken Dimanche Press. The book Lather in Heaven,[4] published by the same editor in 2016, assembles her work in English up to date, as well as some selected translations from the German.
In 2016, Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa,[5] was published by the . It contains a selection of Cotten's poems and prose, inspired by Japan, Japanese literature, and the semiotics of the Japanese language. Fast Dumm, Essays von on the road[6] is a reflecting book about visiting the United States, including poems, essays, photographies and her own translations of poems of other poets, like Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, . The book was published by in 2017.
Cotten lives in Vienna and in Berlin. She relinquished US citizenship in 2005.[7]
Publications[]
- Fremdwörterbuchsonette, poetry, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12497-0.
- Nach der Welt. Die Listen der konkreten Poesie und ihre Folgen., essay, Klever, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902665-01-0.
- Glossarattrappen, prose, AusnahmeVerlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940992-09-3.
- Das Pferd. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2009 (Schöner Lesen Nr. 84), ISBN 978-3-941592-03-2.
- Florida-Räume, poetry, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42132-1.
- Helm aus Phlox. Zur Theorie des schlechtesten Werkzeugs. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-292-4.
- Pflock in der Landschaft, Schock Edition (1), EdK/Distillery, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941330-28-3.
- I, Coleoptile, poetry (English), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032627-1.
- Jikiketsugaki. Tsurezuregusa. Verlag Peter Engstler, Ostheim/Rhön 2016, ISBN 978-3-941126-91-6.
- Lather in Heaven! (English), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin 2016, ISBN 978-3-943196-40-5.
- Fast Dumm, Essays von on the road, Starfruit Publications, Fürth 2017, ISBN 978-3-922895-32-9.
- Lyophilia, Erzählungen, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-42869-6.
Honors[]
- 2007:
- 2008:
- 2008: Clemens-Brentano-Preis
- 2012: Newcomer award of the Hermann-Hesse-Preis
- 2014: Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis
- 2014:
- 2015: Newcomer award of the
- 2015:
- 2017:
- 2017: Elected into the Berlin Academy Arts[8]
- 2018: Stipend for the Villa Aurora[9]
References[]
- ^ Ann Cotten biography Archived September 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine zintzen.org
- ^ "Ann Cotten auf suhrkamp.de".
- ^ Coleoptile Book Page
- ^ Leather in Heaven Book Page
- ^ Jikiketsugaki.Tsurezuregusa Book Page
- ^ Fast Dumm, Essays von from the road Book Page
- ^ "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen to Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register. 2005-02-02. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
- ^ Vier Autorinnen aufgenommen, boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Villa Aurora-StipendiatInnen 2018, Villa Aurora, July 14, 2017, retrieved July 15, 2017.
External links[]
- Ann Cotten on the website of Suhrkamp-publishing (german)
- Website for "Lather in Heaven"
- Review of I,Coleoptile in English from De Reactor
- Ann Cotten on the website of Peter Engstler Verlag (german)
- Ann Cotten on the website of starfruit publications (german)
- Click: A Conversation with Ann Cotten (Interview in English and German), Cordite Poetry Review
- Article on the book Florida-Räume in the German weekly news magazine Die Zeit
- Interview in English with Ann Cotten at 3AM Magazine
- review of the English translation
- Entry at Poetry International Web
- American women poets
- German poets
- American emigrants to Germany
- People from Ames, Iowa
- Living people
- 1982 births
- German women poets
- Austrian women poets
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers