The College warmly congratulates Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German Language and Literature Professor Karen Leeder FRSA MAE who has been longlisted for the prestigious Griffin Prize for Poetry with her translation of Durs Grünbein’s Psyche Running: Selected Poems 2005-2022 (Seagull Books, 2024).
Judges Nick Laird (Northern Ireland), Anne Michaels (Canada), and Tomasz Różycki (Poland) each read 578 books of poetry, including 47 translations from 20 languages, submitted by 219 publishers from 17 different countries. The five shortlisted books will be announced on Wednesday 23 April and the winner will be announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Readings, to be held at Koerner Hall in Toronto, on Wednesday 4 June.
Professor Leeder said:
I am delighted to have been longlisted for this prestigious award and to be in such amazing company. Durs Grünbein is an extraordinary poet – a chronicler of the best and worst of modern history – but also intensely human. His language is of our everyday but also in what poet Don Paterson called ‘a state of exception’. ‘Psyche Running’ offers a selection of over 100 poems from his nine collections since 2005. I have been translating him since then so have accompanied these poems and him, as it were. I am hoping this volume allows his recent work to reach an English-language readership.
Header photo: André Wirsig / Kulturstiftung des Freistaates
