Anja Utler
Author · 5 books
Anja Utler, born in Schwandorf in 1973, is a poet and translator. Her poetry collections include “münden – entzüngeln” (2004), “brinnen” (2006), “jana, vermacht” (2009), “ausgeübt. Eine Kurskorrektur” (2011), and “Von den Knochen der Sanftheit” (2016). She received, among other honors, the Leonce and Lena Poetry Prize (2003), the Basler Poetry Prize (2014), the Heimrad Bäcker Prize (2016), and the South Palatinate Poetry Prize (2020). In 2018, she held the Thomas Kling Poetry Lectureship in Bonn. As a translator, she translated works by Anne Carson into German.