Thomas Kunst
Thomas Kunst, born in 1965, works as a library assistant at the German National Library. He has received numerous awards for his prose and poetry, amongst them the Meran Poetry Prize 2014. In 2018, he was awarded the Lower Austria Prize for Literature for an excerpt from Zandschow. The novel was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021.
Thomas Kunst, born in 1965, works as a library assistant at the German National Library. He has received numerous awards for his prose and poetry, amongst them the Meran Poetry Prize 2014. In 2018, he was awarded the Lower Austria Prize for Literature for an excerpt from Zandschow. The novel was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021.
Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021 with Zandschower Klinken
Literaturpreis Wartholz – Land Niederösterreich Literaturpreis 2018
Walter-Bauer-Preis 2018
Lyrikpreis Meran 2014
F.-C.-Weiskopf-Preis of the Berlin Academy of Arts 2004
Villa Massimo Fellowship 2003
Dresdner Lyrikpreis 1996
Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2021 with Zandschower Klinken
Literaturpreis Wartholz – Land Niederösterreich Literaturpreis 2018
Walter-Bauer-Preis 2018
Lyrikpreis Meran 2014
F.-C.-Weiskopf-Preis of the Berlin Academy of Arts 2004
Villa Massimo Fellowship 2003
Dresdner Lyrikpreis 1996
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Zandschow
Bengt Claasen is sitting in his car, all his earthly possessions in the boot. In front of him, on the dashboard, sits the collar that belonged to his deceased dog. Wherever it falls down, he is going to stop and start a new life. He drives as slowly and carefully as he can and eventually, he reaches Zandschow – a tiny village in the far north with a fire-fighting pond as its...
Colonies And Cufflinks
Thomas Kunst’s new poems are like a foray through a Luna park: Arab horsemen gather in the DIY superstore, the battle of Tours and Poitiers rages between carports and garden furniture covers in the year 732, and we encounter a Viking on 54th street in New York.
The subject of movement and flight are tangible in almost every poem. Although current topics such as...