Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten ( born in 1982 in Ames, Iowa, United States) is a German writer and translator.

Life and work

Cotten was five years old with her family to Vienna. She closed her German studies in 2006 with a thesis on " the lists of concrete poetry " from where she tried to prove, inter alia, the " momentum of the list as [ ... ] instrument of power of a system ." After she had stepped on poetry slams as a poet in appearance and had published poems and prose in literary magazines and anthologies, in 2007 her first volume of poetry appeared Fremdwörterbuchsonette. Cotten was a member of the Forum of 13 and also appeared as a literary theorist in appearance, which is "in the tradition of experimental poetics mediated literature knowledge [ ... ] cognitive processes [ ... ] " interested in the by. Cotten lives in Berlin.

Title

  • Fremdwörterbuchsonette. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12497-0.
  • After the world. The lists of concrete poetry and its consequences. Klever Verlag, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-902665-01-0.
  • Glossary dummies. Exception Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940992-09-3.
  • The horse. SuKuLTuR Verlag, Berlin 2009 ( = Beautiful Reading No. 84), ISBN 978-3-941592-03-2.
  • Florida rooms. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42132-1.
  • With Kerstin Cmelka: I, coleoptile. Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin Oslo Dublin, 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-032627-1.
  • Stake in the landscape, shock Edition ( 1), EdK / Distillery, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941330-28-3.
  • Daniel Falb, Hendrik Jackson, Steffen Popp and Monika Rinck: Helm of Phlox. On the theory of bad mold. Merve Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-883962-92-4.
  • Major work. Softsoftporn. Peter Engstler, Ostheim / Rhön 2013. ISBN 978-3-941126-49-7.
  • The shuddering subjects. Narratives. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42389-9.

Awards

  • 2008: George Saiko Travel Grant
  • 2008: Clemens Brentano Prize
  • 2007: Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
  • 2012: Award of the Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature
  • 2014: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
  • 2014: Wilhelm Lehmann Award
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