Petr Borkovec

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Petr Borkovec, 2019

Petr Borkovec (born April 17, 1970 in Louňovice pod Blaníkem ) is a Czech poet , translator and cultural editor.

Life

In 1995 and 1996, the Thanhäuser book workshop brought out the selected volumes From three books and overpass .

In 1995 Borkovec received the Jiří Orten Prize for his volume of poetry Ochoz ("Handling") . In 2002 he received the norbert-c.-kaser-price for the volume Polní Prace ("Feldarbeit") . In the same year he was awarded the Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry . In the summer semester of 2003 he took on the 5th poetics lectureship on "Literature in Central Europe" in Dresden . At the invitation of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD , he spent 2004/2005 as writer in residence in Berlin .

In 2001, Edition Korrespondenzen published the bilingual volume of poetry Feldarbeit . In a kind of diary, Borkovec wrote about the periphery of the Czech capital and the villa suburb of Černošice , in which he lives. A CD was also released, read by the author and Otto Sander .

In 2004 Edition Korrespondenzen published the bilingual collection of poems Nadelbuch .

In 2006, Thelem-Verlag published the volume " From the Inner Land - Three Types of Translation ", translated into German by Anne Hultsch and Tereza Utezeny, as part of the Dresden Poetics Lecture in 2003 .

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