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The Quivering Fan / Der schaudernde Fächer
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Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis 2014
»… but as soon as the upper half of the eyelids close, a dangerous chaos begins.«
»I had several lovers into whose eyes, like in tea bowls, I wanted to immerse myself every night.«
The person thus speaking is not one to be impressed by emotions. But a sad student in a Pierrot costume catches her attention – and when he sits down on the steps in front of her one night, she takes him with her.
The courtyard of a Japanese university, a remote village in the...
»I had several lovers into whose eyes, like in tea bowls, I wanted to immerse myself every night.«
The person thus speaking is not one to be impressed by emotions. But a sad student in a Pierrot costume catches her attention – and when he sits down on the steps in front of her one night, she takes him with her.
The courtyard of a Japanese university, a remote village in the...
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»… but as soon as the upper half of the eyelids close, a dangerous chaos begins.«
»I had several lovers into whose eyes, like in tea bowls, I wanted to immerse myself every night.«
The person thus speaking is not one to be impressed by emotions. But a sad student in a Pierrot costume catches her attention – and when he sits down on the steps in front of her one night, she takes him with her.
The courtyard of a Japanese university, a remote village in the Ukraine, clubs in Berlin, a long-distance bus in the Algerian desert night – such are the places through which the heroes of these stories move, always absorbed in one sight or another, always fleeing love, always seeking beauty.
Ann Cotten opens a sweeping, resplendent fan – sea cucumbers painted in watercolor on the one side, and on the other, people tangled up in affairs. The agility of her poetry returns transformed in these playful and cynical, guileless and yet irresistible stories.
»Here, with wit and wisdom, intuition and profound understanding, something is being worked on that furrows up the field of literature, so that something else new and different and – why not? – even beautiful can grow out of it.« Die Zeit
»[…] for that is precisely the point: that thinking is tenderness.« The Gap
»The revolution could appear like so: after writing tidy literary realism, Ann Cotten returns to German literature with this wild, hermetic provocation.« Ijoma Mangold, Die Zeit
English review by New Books in German >>
»Here, with wit and wisdom, intuition and profound understanding, something is being worked on that furrows up the field of literature, so that something else new and different and – why not? – even beautiful can grow out of it.« Die Zeit
»[…] for that is precisely the point: that thinking is tenderness.« The Gap
»The revolution could appear like so: after writing tidy literary realism, Ann Cotten returns to German literature with this wild, hermetic...
»[…] for that is precisely the point: that thinking is tenderness.« The Gap
»The revolution could appear like so: after writing tidy literary realism, Ann Cotten returns to German literature with this wild, hermetic...
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2013, 251 pages
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Ann Cotten
Author
Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in 1982, grew up in Vienna. She has been living in Berlin since 2006. In 2011, she spent four months in Nagoya, Japan. For her first poetry collection, Fremdwörterbuchsonette (2007), she was awarded the Reinhard Preissnitz Prize and the Clemens Brentano Prize for Literature of the City of Heidelberg. For Florida-Räume (2010) she received the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize. In 2014, Ann Cotten was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize; in 2015, she was the first recipient of the newly founded Klopstock Prize for Contemporary Literature. In 2017, she was awarded the Hugo-Ball-Prize for her oeuvre.
Ann Cotten
Author
Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in 1982, grew up in Vienna. She has been living in Berlin since 2006. In 2011, she spent four months in Nagoya, Japan....
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2023
Ann CottenYear of Publication: 2023
Ancestral Destructions
Is it the ancestors that are making the air heavy, crowding around the island? In the form of people, clouds, winds, fish, birds of the mountains, birds of the coast, migratory birds and seabirds that come to Hawaii to flirt, lay eggs, rest and then retreat back to the open sea?
Ancestral Destructions deals with the narrator's spiritual and material prehistory: that is...
Year of Publication: 2019
Ann CottenYear of Publication: 2019
Lyophilia
Ann Cotten has grown up, a fact that catapults us somewhat into the future. She claims that all she is interested in now is a constructive approach to a functioning, reasonable life for everyone (if possible). A philanthropic robot, so to speak. But her strangely labyrinthine yet overly respectful way of confronting problems still shows traces of the experiences she gathered as a young...
Year of Publication: 2016
Ann CottenYear of Publication: 2016
Banned!
Billowing palm trees, a rustle in the celery, a tiger disappears, an atomic bomb detonates in the distance, and a consciousness starts moving backwards. The latter belongs to a TV presenter who has been banished to a deserted island due to numerous instances of grave misconduct, equipped with (as per her own choice) a knife, a grindstone and Meyers...
Year of Publication: 2010
Ann CottenYear of Publication: 2010
Florida-Spaces
»Want to earn money writing? Want to disclose your most intimate thoughts?« Naturally, people reacted to our invitation in the classifieds and sent in texts. Some of them have been gathered in the...
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Serbia (Kontrast)
Year of Publication: 2007
Ann CottenYear of Publication: 2007
Sonnets from the Dictionary of Borrowed Words
Weighed down by few associations, artificial, new, or existing in our everyday language merely temporarily – loan words seem to apologise for their existence: »I’m only fulfilling a conceptual function, occupying a job for which there’s no qualified German available at the moment.«
Could they be serious? Ann Cotten employs them in the rattling machines of thought...