Torso of Polyphemus: Karen Leeder on Durs Grunbein and Rilke at Poetry International
b'KAREN LEEDER\\nKaren Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German literature, especially poetry and has been active in translation in the UK and beyond: including a stint on the English PEN Work in Translation Committee, the Steering Committee of the British Centre for Translation and on the Board of MPT. \\n\\nDURS GR\\xdcNBEIN\\nDurs Gr\\xfcnbein was born in Dresden in the former East Germany in 1962. He has lived in Berlin since 1985, working as poet, essayist and translator from English, Latin and Greek, and now as Professor at Kunstakademie D\\xfcsseldorf. He won Germany\\u2019s major literary prize, the Georg-B\\xfcchner-Preis, at the age of 33. Ashes for Breakfast (Faber), his ninth book of poems and his first in English translation, was launched at the 2006 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival.'