Durs Grünbein
Declared Night - Poems
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in Dresden, lives in Berlin.
Awards (Selection):
Peter-Huchel-Prize (1995)
Georg-Büchner-Prize (1995)
Friedrich Nietzsche-Prize (2004)
Tomas-Tränströmer-Prize (2012)
Sold to
Italy (Einaudi), Hungary (Jelenkor)
About
Exploring the possibilities individuals have within the limits of their life-times and the confines of the big city as their living space – these have long since been themes that Grünbein addresses.
»Why are you here? gets up every morning with you. «
His new poems, that are ordered under the chapter headings Poems out of time, New Histories and Treatise on Passing Time, he takes up these themes and slowly develops them into long poems and cycles.
Praise
»A poet who is frequently described as the best to emerge in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall.« The New York Review of Books
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Other publications
Der cartesische Taucher/The Cartesian Diver (2008)
Sold to:
English world rights (Upper West Side Philosophers), Sweden (Ersatz)
Antike Dispositionen/Antique Dispositions (2005)
Rights available
Porzellan/Porcelain (2005)
Rights available
Vom Schnee oder Descartes in Deutschland/On Snow or Descartes in Germany (2003)
Sold to:
Italy (Einaudi), Sweden (Ersatz), Greece (Keedros)
Nach den Satiren/After the Satires (1999)
Sold to:
France (Petits Matins), Czech Republic (Opus), Hungary (Jelenkor - published, rights reverted)