Clemens J. Setz
Clemens J. Setz (born 15 November 1982, in Graz) is an Austrian writer and translator.
He debuted in 2007 with the novel Söhne und Planeten. His second novel, Die Frequenzen, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. He won the 2011 Leipzig Book Fair Prize with the short story collection Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes. In 2012 he was again shortlisted for the German Book Prize for the novel Indigo, and in 2015 he received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre.[1][2]
He published literature translations into German of John Leake (Entering Hades), Edward Gorey (The Utter Zoo; The Hapless Child; The Osbick Bird) and Scott McClanahan (Sarah).
In 2020 he was awarded the Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis and the prestigious Kleist Prize,[citation needed] in 2021 the Georg Büchner Prize.[3]
Clemens J. Setz lives and works in Vienna.
List of works
- Söhne und Planeten. Novel. Residenz, St. Pölten 2007. ISBN 978-3-7017-1484-1
- Die Frequenzen. Novel. Residenz, St. Pölten 2009. ISBN 978-3-7017-1515-2
- Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes. Short stories. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-518-42221-2
- Zeitfrauen. (Schöner Lesen Nr. 112.) SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-941592-34-6
- Indigo. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012. Published in English in 2014. ISBN 978-3-518-42324-0
- Die Vogelstraußtrompete. Poems. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-518-42416-2
- Glücklich wie Blei im Getreide. Retellings. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-46587-5
- Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-518-42495-7
- Verweilen unter schwebender Last. (Tübinger Poetik-Dozentur 2015, with Kathrin Passig), Essays, Lectures, Speeches. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2016. ISBN 978-3-89929-336-4
- Der Trost runder Dinge. Short stories. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-518-42852-8
- Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-518-42965-5[4]
References
- ^ "Preise für Clemens J. Setz". suhrkamp.de (in German). Suhrkamp Verlag. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Clemens J. Setz erhält Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis". Der Standard (in German). 2 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Georg-Büchner-Preis 2021 geht an Clemens J. Setz". Die Zeit (in German). 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ (de) Wolfgang Popp, Clemens Setz und die Grenzen der Sprache Archived 30 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, ORF.at
External links
- Publicity page at the German publisher's website (in German)
- Publicity page at the American publisher's website
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- 1923 Adam Karrillon and Arnold Mendelssohn
- 1924 Alfred Bock and Paul Thesing
- 1925 Wilhelm Michel and Rudolf Koch
- 1926 Christian Heinrich Kleukens and Wilhelm Petersen
- 1927 Kasimir Edschmid and Johannes Bischoff
- 1928 Richard Hoelscher and Well Habicht
- 1929 Carl Zuckmayer and Adam Antes
- 1930 Nikolaus Schwarzkopf and Johannes Lippmann
- 1931 Alexander Posch and Hans Simon
- 1932 Albert H. Rausch and Adolf Bode
- 1933–1944 not given
- 1945 Hans Schiebelhuth
- 1946 Fritz Usinger
- 1947 Anna Seghers
- 1948 Hermann Heiss
- 1949 Carl Gunschmann
- 1950 Elisabeth Langgässer
- 1951 Gottfried Benn
- 1952 not given
- 1953 Ernst Kreuder
- 1954 Martin Kessel
- 1955 Marie Luise Kaschnitz
- 1956 Karl Krolow
- 1957 Erich Kästner
- 1958 Max Frisch
- 1959 Günter Eich
- 1960 Paul Celan
- 1961 Hans Erich Nossack
- 1962 Wolfgang Koeppen
- 1963 Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- 1964 Ingeborg Bachmann
- 1965 Günter Grass
- 1966 Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- 1967 Heinrich Böll
- 1968 Golo Mann
- 1969 Helmut Heißenbüttel
- 1970 Thomas Bernhard
- 1971 Uwe Johnson
- 1972 Elias Canetti
- 1973 Peter Handke
- 1974 Hermann Kesten
- 1975 Manès Sperber
- 1976 Heinz Piontek
- 1977 Reiner Kunze
- 1978 Hermann Lenz
- 1979 Ernst Meister
- 1980 Christa Wolf
- 1981 Martin Walser
- 1982 Peter Weiss
- 1983 Wolfdietrich Schnurre
- 1984 Ernst Jandl
- 1985 Heiner Müller
- 1986 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 1987 Erich Fried
- 1988 Albert Drach
- 1989 Botho Strauß
- 1990 Tankred Dorst
- 1991 Wolf Biermann
- 1992 George Tabori
- 1993 Peter Rühmkorf
- 1994 Adolf Muschg
- 1995 Durs Grünbein
- 1996 Sarah Kirsch
- 1997 H. C. Artmann
- 1998 Elfriede Jelinek
- 1999 Arnold Stadler
- 2000 Volker Braun
- 2001 Friederike Mayröcker
- 2002 Wolfgang Hilbig
- 2003 Alexander Kluge
- 2004 Wilhelm Genazino
- 2005 Brigitte Kronauer
- 2006 Oskar Pastior
- 2007 Martin Mosebach
- 2008 Josef Winkler
- 2009 Walter Kappacher
- 2010 Reinhard Jirgl
- 2011 Friedrich Christian Delius
- 2012 Felicitas Hoppe
- 2013 Sibylle Lewitscharoff
- 2014 Jürgen Becker
- 2015 Rainald Goetz
- 2016 Marcel Beyer
- 2017 Jan Wagner
- 2018 Terézia Mora
- 2019 Lukas Bärfuss
- 2020 Elke Erb
- 2021 Clemens J. Setz
- 2022 Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- 2023: Lutz Seiler