Ben Lerner

Benjamin S. Lerner ( born February 4, 1979 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American writer.

Life

Lerner attended high school in Topeka and graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA) in political science and a MFA in from the seal.

2003 brought him a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid. Lerner is Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. In 2011 he won the prize of the city of Münster for International Poetry.

Works (selection)

  • Leaving the Atocha Station. Coffee House Press, 2011 ISBN 9781566892926 Farewell to Atocha. Translated from English by Nikolaus Stingl. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013
  • The Lichtenberg figures. Translated from English by Steffen Popp. Lux, Wiesbaden 2011
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