Sylvia Geist
Author

Poemas

Jerichokaleidoskop alemán

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Besuch in Leiden alemán

Traducciones: ar en fr sk

Böse Gewichte alemán

Traducciones: ar en fr

Moabiter Nachlass alemán

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Lyssa alemán

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Carbon alemán

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Chlor alemán

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Kalium alemán

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Silber alemán

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Tantal alemán

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Spin alemán

Traducciones: ar

Kolk alemán

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Manara alemán

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Iridium alemán

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Germanium alemán

Sylvia Geist
Author

About

* 06.08.1963, Berlin, Alemania
Vive en: Flieth, Alemania

Sylvia Geist, born in Berlin in 1963, is a poetess and artist. From 1982 to 1989 she studied chemistry, German studies and art history at the Technical University of Berlin. Today she lives in the Uckermark and in Vancouver.

Geist worked as a reviewer and editorial journalist, f. e. for Financial Times Germany, and as an editor for middle east European literature. She writes prose (fiction and essay) and poetry, and translates also from English; poems by Peter Gizzi, Chirikure Chirikure and contemporary poetry from Southafrica i.e. has been published in her translation.

Short prose and poems of Geist have been translated into more various languages, f. e. into French, Polish, Belarussian, Slovakian, Arabic and English. The poetess has been awarded a number of prizes for her poetry, among others the Literaturförderpreis des Landes Niedersachsen (1998), the poetry award Meran (2002), the Adolf-Mejstrik-Ehrengabe of the German Schiller Foundation (2008) and the Ver.di Literaurpreis Berlin-Brandenburg (2014).