Tomás Cohen

BAUSPIELPLATZ

Language: spanish

Translations: german (BAUSPIELPLATZ), italian (BAUSPIELPLATZ), lithuanian (Bauspielplatz)

BAUSPIELPLATZ

Ya querría haber crecido aquí
en Hamburgo, donde parte del parque se reserva
para que los niños jueguen a la construcción;
nadie que pretenda ser persona terminada
se queda: el adulto
puede solo pasar a dejar o a buscar
su valeroso recuerdo, su persistente primavera,
aquel personaje escrito para sobrevivir al autor,
al lector y al final de la novela— su hijo.

Tomás Cohen

photo © Felix L. Salazar

* 12.10.1984, Pelluhue, Chile
lives in: Berlin, Germany

Tomás Cohen, born 1984 in Chile, is a Berlin-based writer, translator and painter. He studied Musicology and Fine Arts at P. Universidad Católica de Chile and Art History at New York University. After living for two years in Nepal, he is moved to Germany to study Buddhism, Tibetan and Sanskrit at Universität Hamburg.

As founding member of the 'foundintranslation' writers collective, he organises the multilingual reading series Hafenlesung in Hamburg, and has been resident translator at the Übersetzerhaus Looren (Switzerland), the Baltic Center for Writers and Translators (Sweden) and was the Chilean Editor-at-Large of Asymptote journal.
His poetry has been translated into six languages, and published in German (translated by Monika Rinck) in the journals Edit, Park, NOX and Prothese. He has published the books Redoble del ronroneo (Buenos Aires Poetry, 2016) and Un árbol de luz íntima (Ediciones Bastante, 2019).
Since 2019 he is living in Berlin.

photo © Felix L. Salazar

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