Karen Leeder
Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford. As an academic she has published widely on modern German poetry, with volumes on Brecht, Rilke, contemporary German poetry and Durs Grünbein. She has also translated works by a number of contemporary German poets including Ulrike Almut Sandig, Durs Grünbein and Volker Braun. Leeder has won several prizes, for instance, for her translation of Austrian poet Evelyn Schlag’s “Selected Poems” (Carcanet, 2004). In 2014 she was awarded a Robert Bosch Stiftung award to the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. In the years 2014/2015 she was a Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Southbank Centre, London.
Translated works
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I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other
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Monsters Like Us
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Porcelain
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For the Dying Calves
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Thick of It
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The God behind the Window
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The Sex of the Angels, the Saints in their Heaven
Seagull Books, Kolkata, 2019