Wolfgang Matz

Wolfgang Matz (born 1955 in Berlin) taught German language and literature at the University of Poitiers from 1987 to 1995. He subsequently worked as a publishing editor in Munich, including at Carl Hanser Verlag, as well as an author and translator. His translations of French prose and poetry received the Paul Celan Prize and the Petrarca Prize; in 2024 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism. His books include Eine Kugel im Leibe (2011), Die Kunst des Ehebruchs (2014), Adalbert Stifter oder Diese fürchterliche Wendung der Dinge (2016), Frankreich gegen Frankreich (2017), 1857. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Stifter (2021), and Rudolf Borchardt. Der verlorene Posten (2023).