Every poet who is awarded the German Peter Huchel Prize can be proud of owning a particularly well-woven laurel wreath. The poet Judith Zander (42), who was born in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, has just been awarded the prize. The seven-member jury, which had 15,000 euros to award, expressly praised the “nuanced word work” and the “high musicality” of Zander’s poems. The prize has been awarded in Huchel’s name every year since 1984: the list of those who have been honored includes such idiosyncratic and sometimes cumbersome poets as Friederike Mayröcker, Sarah Kirsch, Wolfgang Hilbig and Oskar Pastior.
