Kerstin Preiwuß, Germany

Kerstin Preiwuss was born in 1980 in Lübz and now lives with her family in Leipzig where she works as a freelance writer. She studied German, Philosophy and Psychology in Leipzig and Aix-en-Provence, gained her doctorate with a thesis on German-Polish place-names and is a graduate of the German Literature Institute and a member of German PEN. She has published several novels and collections of poetry, most recently Taupunkt (Berlin Verlag, 2016). Beate Tröger has written of the poems of Kerstin Preiwuss describing them as “poetic speaking that seems saturated with depths of individual experience but that can be discreetly turned over into something that speaks to all readers”. (Literaturblatt.de)

Publications (Selection):
Gespür für Licht. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, 2016
Nach Onkalo. Roman. Berlin Verlag, 2017
Taupunkt. Gedichte. Berlin Verlag, 2020

Prices (Selection):
2008: Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium
2010: Arbeitsstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
2012: Mondseer Lyrikpreis
2018: Lyrikpreis Meran
2018: Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
2020: Anke Bennholdt-Thomsen-Lyrikpreis der Deutschen Schillerstiftung

Listen to the poet on lyrikline.org