Jan Wilm

Jan Wilm (* 1983 ) is a German writer, translator and literary critic. He publishes for various media in German and English-speaking countries such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Jan Wilm studied English and American studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and received his doctorate with a thesis on JM Coetzee . He lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Works

Books

• The Slow Philosophy of JM Coetzee . Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4742-5645-2 .
• Winter yearbook . Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main, 2019. ISBN 978-3-89561-497-2 .

editor

• Jan Wilm, Mark Nixon: Samuel Beckett and German literature . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8376-2067-2 .
• Patrick Hayes, Jan Wilm: Beyond the ancient quarrel: literature, philosophy, and JM Coetzee . Oxford, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-880528-1 .

Publications (excerpt)

• Samuel Beckett's Letters Courage doesn't stink . Published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 6, 2014.
• Very dark mirrors . Published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 18, 2017.
• Williams . Published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 8, 2017.
• Ror Wolf: “Walks on the edge of the sea” . Published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 13, 2018.
• Sexual Abuse and Critical Abuse: On Christian Kracht's "The Dead". Published in Los Angeles Review of Books, October 10, 2018.
• Les Murray is dead - Australia is losing its greatest poet . Published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 29, 2019.
• All the World's a Stage: On Yukio Mishima's "Star". Published in Los Angeles Review of Books on June 18, 2019.
• Mistakes make a woman perfect. Published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 4, 2020.

Translations

• Maggie Nelson : The Argonauts . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-446-25707-8 .
• Maggie Nelson: Bluets . Hanser Berlin, 2018. ISBN 978-3-446-26044-3 .

Web links

• Website of Jan Wilm