(1980-11-13) 13 November 1980 (age 44) Anklam, East Germany
Occupation
Writer, literary translator
Genre
Poetry
Judith Zander (born 13 November 1980 in Anklam, Germany) is a German writer and translator.[1]
Life
Zander studied German and English studies as well as History in Greifswald. Subsequently, she studied creative writing at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. She works as a translator and has translated several books by Sylvia Plath, among others. Her own writing includes prose and poetry. For her debut novel, Zander was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2010.[2] Her work has won her numerous awards. For her poetry collection, im ländchen sommer im winter zur see (In the Countryside Summer in Winter at Sea), she won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2023. She is a member of the PEN Centre Germany.
Cactaceae. Sachbuch. With photographies by Johanna Ruebel. Matthes & Seitz (= Naturkunden, Vol. 14), Berlin 2014, ISBN978-3-95757-029-1.
Wanderungen. Literarische Erkundungen auf den Spuren von Theodor Fontane. Essays. In collaboration with Thomas Hettche and Ingo Schulze. With drawings by Matthias Beckmann. Edition Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin 2019, ISBN978-3-944007-09-0