Ann Cotten

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Ann Cotten at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

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[]

References[]

  1. ^ Ann Cotten biography Archived September 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine zintzen.org
  2. ^ "Ann Cotten auf suhrkamp.de".
  3. ^ Coleoptile Book Page
  4. ^ Leather in Heaven Book Page
  5. ^ Jikiketsugaki.Tsurezuregusa Book Page
  6. ^ Fast Dumm, Essays von from the road Book Page
  7. ^ "Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen to Expatriate, as Required by Section 6039G". Federal Register. 2005-02-02. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  8. ^ Vier Autorinnen aufgenommen, boersenblatt.net, July 7, 2017, retrieved July 7, 2017.
  9. ^ Villa Aurora-StipendiatInnen 2018, Villa Aurora, July 14, 2017, retrieved July 15, 2017.

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