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SUMMARY:Jan Wagner Bilingual Poetry Reading - Jan Wagner
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CONTACT:Ulrike Balser
DESCRIPTION:The German writer and poet Jan Wagner will be coming to Caius 
 as part of the DAAD's writer in residence program. His reading will be hel
 d together with his translator Iain Galbraith. You are all very warmly inv
 ited to attend this unique event!\n\nJan Wagner\, originally from Hamburg\
 , has lived in Berlin since 1995. He studied at Trinity College\, Dublin a
 nd has translated English poetry into German ever since. He has published 
 seven volumes of poetry and is co-editor of the German modern poetry serie
 s Lyrik von Jetzt. He has won 13 literary prizes\, including the Anna-Segh
 ers Prize in 2004 and the Friedrich-Hölderlin Prize in 2011.\n\nIain Galb
 raith\, former MML student of Clare College\, Cambridge\, is an author and
  translator. He was born in Glasgow and now lives in Mainz. He has transla
 ted into English the poems of Jan Wagner and many others\, including Peter
  Handke and Raoul Schrott. Furthermore\, he has translated English poetry 
 of Michael Hamburg\, John Burnside and Robert Crawford into German. He is 
 co-editor of ‘Oxford Poets’ and has been awarded the British Centre fo
 r Literary Translation Prize and the John Dryden Prize for Literary Transl
 ation in 2004. 
LOCATION:Green Room\, Gonville & Caius College\, Cambridge
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