UTLER, Anja

2017 Visitor
2017 50th Anniversary Guest
  • Europe
  • Western Europe
  • Germany

Anja Utler (Germany, IWP '14) is the author of six books, as well as several acoustic and visual installations of poetry. Her poems and essays have been translated into 20 languages. For her work she has received the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis (2003), the Basler Lyrikpreis (2014) and the 2016 Heimrad Bäcker prize, awarded annually for experimental literature written in German. A collection in English, engulf – enkindle, was translated by Kurt Beals and published by Burning Deck in 2010. The year following her participation in IWP, Utler was the Max Kade German Writer in Residence at Oberlin College. She is currently a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 

Happening Now

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

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