Poetry

Anja Kampmann

Photo: © Juliane Henrich

Anja Kampmann, born in Hamburg in 1983, studied at the University of Hamburg and the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. In 2011 she was a fellow of the International Writing Program Iowa, after which she began a dissertation on Samuel Beckett's late prose and worked for the radio. Her poetry debut appeared in 2016, and in 2018 she published her first novel.

Homepage: https://www.anjakampmann.de

(Updated: 2022)

Awards

  • 2020 Rainer Malkowski Prize
  • 2019 Lessing Sponsorship Prize
  • 2018 Mara Cassens Prize
  • 2015 Wolfgang Weyrauch Sponsorship Prize
  • 2013 MDR Literature Prize

More Publications

Wie hoch die Wasser steigen
Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018.

Fischdiebe
Leipziger Bibliophilen-Abend, Leipzig 2017.

Proben von Stein und Licht
Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016.

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