Literary Discussion
Lutz Seiler is one of Germany's most interesting, contemporary poets and writers. He recently won the Georg Büchner Prize, whose past recipients include Max Frisch, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann – and basically most of the other key German-language writers you can think of. Seiler grew up in Communist East Germany and started publishing poetry after the Berlin Wall fell. This year sees the first English publication of his award-winning
Wenderoman novel
Star 111 (
Stern 111), his 'epoch-making' poetry collection
Pitch & Glint (
pech & blende), and a rich, evocative collection of essays,
In Case of Loss. To celebrate the publication of these three complementary works, join Seiler in conversation with Granta Magazine editor
Thomas Meaney, and the translators
Stefan Tobler and
Martyn Crucefix, to explore bringing Seiler’s unmistakable craft and sound to English.
The publication of
Star 111, translated by Tess Lewis has been supported by the PEN Translates Awards and we’re pleased to promote this event in the context of
International Translation Day 2023.
Book tickets via Eventbrite
Short Biogs:
© Martyn Crucefix
Martyn Crucefix – recent original poetry,
Between a Drowning Man, published by Salt (2023). Other publications include
Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019);
These Numbered Days, translations from the German of Peter Huchel (Shearsman, 2019) which won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2020; translations of essays by Lutz Seiler,
In Case of Loss, has just appeared with And Other Stories; a major Rilke Selected,
Change Your Life, will be published by Pushkin Press in 2024. Currently, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library. Blogging at http://www.martyncrucefix.com
© Thomas Meaney
Thomas Meaney is the
Editor of Granta Magazine.
© Stefan Tobler
Stefan Tobler was born in Belém, Brazil, to English and Swiss parents. He is a translator and the founder of And Other Stories. Authors he has translated include Clarice Lispector, Raduan Nassar and Arno Geiger, and most recently Lutz Seiler's
Pitch & Glint. He grew up in northern Brazil and southern England, and has now made his home in the Dark Peak.
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