Christophe Fricker

Christophe Fricker (born 1978 in Wiesbaden, Germany) worked as an author, translator and academic. He studied politics, German literature and musicology in Freiburg, Singapore and Halifax, and earned a doctorate on Stefan George at St John’s College, Oxford. He subsequently worked at institutions including Duke University, Rutgers University and the University of Bristol, where he taught translation. His publications include the poetry collection “Das schöne Auge des Betrachters” (2008), “Larkin Terminal” (2009) and “Stefan George: Gedichte für Dich”. His poetry collection received the Hermann Hesse Advancement Award in 2009, and he received a Merkur Essay Prize in 2007 for his travel essays.