Lutz Seiler

Lutz Seiler was born in Germany in 1963. He worked as a carpenter and a bricklayer before turning to literature. His poetry, novels, and essays have won numerous awards, including the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, and the German Book Prize. His works in English translation include two novels, Kruso (2017, tr. Tess Lewis) and Star 111 (2023, tr. Tess Lewis); two collections of poems, in field latin (2016, tr. Alexander Booth) and Pitch & Glint (2023, tr. Stefan Tobler); and a collection of essays, In Case of Loss (2023, tr. Martyn Crucefix). His work has also appeared in English in journals and magazines such as Granta, Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, PROTOTYPE, the New Statesman, the TLS, and The White Review. Since 1997, he has been the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Haus.