Sirka Elspaß
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Sirka Elspaß
Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and language arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (under Monika Rinck, among others). She was a prize-winner at the Treffen junger Autor:innen 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-Nachwuchspreisträgerin 2013, she co-edited the magazine BELLA triste (no. 41-45) and has published her work in various magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The collection of poetry ich föhne mir meine wimpern is her debut.
Sirka Elspaß, born in Oberhausen in 1995, studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and language arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (under Monika Rinck, among others). She was a prize-winner at the Treffen junger Autor:innen 2010 & 2012 and postpoetry-Nachwuchspreisträgerin 2013, she co-edited the magazine BELLA triste (no. 41-45) and has published her work in various magazines and anthologies, including STILL, Edit and Lyrik von Jetzt 3. The collection of poetry ich föhne mir meine wimpern is her debut.
Awards (selection)
Shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize 2022 (for ich föhne mir meine wimpern)
Shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize 2022 (for ich föhne mir meine wimpern)
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2022
Sirka ElspaßYear of Publication: 2022
i am blow-drying my lashes
Everything begins with birth, but »no one comes into the world / and knows how things work«. But then the doctor says straight away that she is capable of great things, with which he means: hunger. And so her own body becomes an area of crisis and conflict from the very beginning. All the more so when later, in a toilet in Versailles, it suddenly bleeds for the first time. A place...
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Sirka Elspaß Wins the Lyrikpreis Orphil 2024 for Best Debut
Elspaß receives the prize for her collection i am blow-drying my lashes.News