Anja Kampmann (born 30 October 1983)"Anja Kampmann". lyrikline.org (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2025. is a German poet and author.
Biography Kampmann was born in 1983 in Hamburg. She studied at the University of Hamburg and at the German Institute for Literature () in Leipzig. She also attended the renowned International Writing Program at the University of Iowa with a scholarship, then start of a dissertation on Samuel Beckett's later prose (musicality & silence) as well as work for the radio. Since 2011, she has been working for Deutschlandfunk and NZZ, among others.
Her poetry has been published in numerous German publications. Her debut collection Proben von Stein und Licht appeared in 2016 in Edition Lyrik. Her first novel Wie hoch die Wasser steigen (High As The Waters Rise, translated by Anne Posten) has received widespread acclaim, and has won many prizes among them the and the Lessing Prize (Förderpreis). It was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2020. In 2021 she published her second collection of poetry Der Hund ist immer hungrig (the dog is always hungry) which was widely acclaimed.
She lives in Leipzig.
Works 2016: 2018: 2019: English translation by Anne Posten.Briefly reviewed in the September 21, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, p.67. 2021: 2025:
Awards 2010: Scholarship “International Writing Program” University of Iowa 2013: 1st Prize MDR Literature Prize 2014: Feldkircher Poetry Prize (2nd prize) 2015: Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize 2017: Artist in Residence at in Winterthur 2017: Finalist Alfred Döblin Prize 2018: Nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize ( Fiction ) with High as the waters rise 2018: Nomination for the German Book Prize (longlist) with High as the waters rise 2018: Finalist in the Aspekte-Literaturpreis with High As The Waters Rise 2018: Literature Prize of the Lüneburg District for High As The Waters Rise 2018: for High as the waters rise 2019: Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (sponsorship prize) 2019/2020: Stadtschreiber von Bergen 2020: High as the Waters Rise. Translation of Anne Posten. Shortlisted for the National Book Award. 2020: Rainer Malkowski Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (together with Norbert Hummelt) 2023: Ten-week London scholarship from the German Literature Fund,London-Stipendium, Deutscher Literaturfonds. Retrieved 13 April 2026. as Writer-in-Residence at Queen Mary University of London (spring 2024)Writers in Residence, Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 13 April 2026. 2025: Scholarship of the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg"Schriftstellerin Judith Schalansky erhält den Lessing-Preis 2025". hamburg.de, 21 November 2025 (in German). Retrieved 21 November 2025. 2026: Hans Fallada Prize for Die Wut ist ein heller Stern"Anja Kampmann erhält Hans-Fallada-Preis 2026". wdr.de, 31 October 2025 (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2025.
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