Nora Gomringer

Nora Gomringer (born 1980 in Neunkirchen/Saar) is a German-Swiss poet, performer and author. She studied American studies, German and art history in Bamberg. Her work includes several poetry and essay collections, as well as short stories, radio pieces, spoken-word texts, theatre works and opera libretti. Individual poetry collections have been translated into Swedish, French, English, Spanish, Belarusian and Vietnamese, among other languages. She received the Jacob Grimm Prize for the German Language in 2011, the Joachim Ringelnatz Prize for Poetry in 2012 and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2015. Further awards include the Else Lasker-Schüler Prize (2022) and the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humour (2025). Together with jazz musician Philipp Scholz, she explored the work of Dorothy Parker on the CD »Peng Peng Parker«.