Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten (born 1982, Ames, Iowa) is an American-born German writer.

Life and work

At the age of five years Ann Cotten was taken by her parents, who are both biochemists, to Vienna, where they went for work.^[1] There she finished university in 2006 with a work about Concrete Poetry. At the same time she first emerged as a poet at poetry slams. In 2007 Cotten, whose work has been published in anthologies and journals for poetry, succeeded as a writer with her first book, Fremdwörterbuchsonnette, which was published at Suhrkamp. Her latest book with Suhrkamp is Florida-Räume^[2] Some of her poems have been translated into English and published in journals like burning deck (USA). In 2010 Cotten collaborated with visual artist Kerstin Cmelka in a book called I, Coleoptile.^[3] Original English poetry and film stills, the book was published by Broken Dimanche Press.

Cotten grew up as a Viennese girl, nevertheless there is a remarkable idiom in her writings including lots of English allusions.

Ann Cotten lives in Vienna and in Berlin.

Publications

• Fremdwörterbuchsonette, poetry, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12497-0.
• Nach der Welt. Die Listen der konkreten Poesie und ihre Folgen., essay, Klever, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902665-01-0.
• Glossarattrappen, prose, AusnahmeVerlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940992-09-3.
• Das Pferd. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2009 (Schöner Lesen Nr. 84), ISBN 978-3-941592-03-2.
• Florida-Räume, poetry, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42132-1.
• I, Coleoptile, poetry (English), Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin-Oslo-Dublin 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032627-1

Honors

• 2008: George-Saiko-Reisestipendium
• 2008: Clemens-Brentano-Preis
• 2007: Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis

References

1. Ann Cotten biography zintzen.org
2. http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/ann_cotten_5973.html
3. Coleoptile Book Page

External links

• Click: A Conversation with Ann Cotten (Interview in English and German), Cordite Poetry Review
• Review of I,Coleoptile in English from De Reactor
• Article on the book Florida-Räume in the German weekly news magazine Die Zeit
• Webpage for Ann Cotten English book
• Interview in English with Ann Cotten at 3AM Magazine
• review of the English translation
• Ann Cotten on the website of Suhrkamp-publishing (german)
• Entry at Poetry International Web