Institute of English and American Studies
Institute of English and American Studies
A Reading by Peter Wortsman
2 October 2019, by JH und IP
Photo: ricky-owens
A Reading from Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind
Peter Wortsman, Writer, Translator and Alumnus, American Academy in Berlin
In cooperation with the US Consulate General Hamburg, there will be a reading by Peter Wortsman within the framework of a seminar by Prof. Böger (Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, 2-4 pm in Ü35-01047). Please feel welcome to attend.
Peter Wortsman is the author of novels, books of short fiction, plays, and travel memoirs. He is also a literary translator from German into English. He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1973, a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow in 1974, and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010. His writing has been honored with the 1985 Beard’s Fund Short Story Award, the 2008 Gertje Potash-Suhr Prosapreis of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year in the Solas Awards Competition, and a 2014 Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY). His travel reflections were selected five years in a row, 2008-2012, and again in 2016, for inclusion in The Best Travel Writing. His short fiction and essays have appeared, in German translation, in Manuskripte, Schreibheft, Cicero, the anthology AmLit: Neue Literatur aus den USA, published by the Druckhaus Galrev, Berlin, and in Die Welt and Die Zeit.
