Portrait of Paul Celan

Paul Celan

Paul Celan (1920–1970) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest German-language poets. He was born to Jewish parents in Czernowitz, then part of Romania. He lost his parents to the Nazi genocide and was himself a survivor of a forced-labor camp. After brief periods in postwar Bucharest and Vienna, he settled in Paris, where, alongside his work as a poet, he taught German at the École Normale Supérieure and translated from many languages. He died of suicide.

AGNI has published the following work:

In Egypt

Poetry by Paul Celan Translated from the German by Kai Maristed

Cologne, Am Hof

Poetry by Paul Celan Translated from the German by Kai Maristed

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5

Poetry by Paul Celan Translated from the German by Paul Franz

Untitled

Poetry by Paul Celan Translated from the German by Franz Wright

The Syllable Pain

Poetry by Paul Celan Translated from the German by Lynn Dubinsky and Matthais Rosenthal
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