Daniela Seel
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Daniela Seel

Daniela Seel was born in 1974 in Frankfurt am Main, and lives in Berlin, where she works as an author and translator and runs the renowned poetry press kookbooks. She has published the poetry anthologies ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden, kookbooks 2011, was weißt du schon von prärie, kookbooks 2015, and Auszug aus Eden, Verlag Peter Engstler 2019, and together with Frank Kaspar, the radio feature was weißt du schon von prärie, aired on SWR/DLF 2015. She has received numerous prizes for her work, and her poetry has been translated into various languages. After Eden is her first book with Suhrkamp Verlag.
Daniela Seel was born in 1974 in Frankfurt am Main, and lives in Berlin, where she works as an author and translator and runs the renowned poetry press kookbooks. She has published the poetry anthologies ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden, kookbooks 2011, was weißt du schon von prärie, kookbooks 2015, and Auszug aus Eden, Verlag Peter Engstler 2019, and together with Frank Kaspar, the radio feature was weißt du schon von prärie, aired on SWR/DLF 2015. She has received numerous prizes for her work, and her poetry has been translated into various languages. After Eden is her first book with Suhrkamp Verlag.
Awards (selection)
Kleist Prize 2025
Kleist Prize 2025

PUBLICATIONS

After Eden
Year of Publication: 2024
Daniela SeelYear of Publication: 2024
In her new book-length poem, Daniela Seel, a prize-winning poet and publisher, searches for a language »after Eden«. She listens intently for the absent heart sounds of her unborn child and the songs of exterminated whales, looks at Goya’s Black Paintings, reads Humboldt’s American travel diaries, and speaks of things about which science knows little: Dying. Being born. Vulnerability....

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News
This year's Kleist Prize, endowed with €20,000, goes to poet, translator, and publisher Daniela Seel.