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Seagull Books publication ‘Psyche Running' wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder
Psyche Running, translated by Karen Leeder and written in German by Durs Grünbein, is the winner of the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize. The prize-winning volume of poetry has been published by Seagull Books of India. The cash prize of C$130,000 will be divided between Leeder and Grünbein, with 60 per cent going to the translator and 40 per cent to the author. Each of the other finalists received C$10,000. The judges said, 'Durs Grünbein's Psyche Running is a brilliant overview and selection of a poet who satisfies our hunger to be serious, as again and again he finds himself 'between words and things.' Karen Leeder's adept translations establish a new version of Grünbein in English: universal, lyrical, philosophical.' Karen Leeder is a writer, scholar, and translator of contemporary German literature. She is the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. In 2023, she began a three-year Einstein Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin for her project AfterWords. Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962 and now lives in Berlin and Rome. Since 2005, he has been a professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. Upon receiving the Prize, Leeder said, 'It is such an honour to be the recipient of this very special prize. We are so grateful to Seagull Books for backing us. What a privilege to bring this amazing poet into English.' Grünbein added, 'Everybody is now talking about this famous publishing house in Kolkata and the publisher behind all the books: You, Naveen [Kishore, publisher], only you. Thank you for believing in me from the beginning.' The international Griffin Poetry Prize was founded in 2000 to recognise excellence in poetry. The prize is for first edition books of poetry written in, or translated into, English and submitted from anywhere in the world. Judges Nick Laird, Anne Michaels, and Tomasz Różycki read 578 books of poetry, including 47 translations from 20 languages, submitted by 219 publishers from 17 different countries. The other books on the shortlist were: The Great Zoo, translated by Aaron Coleman from the Spanish, written by Nicolás Guillén Kiss the Eyes of Peace, translated by Brian Henry from the Slovenian, written by Tomaž Šalamun Scattered Snows, to the North, Carl Phillips Modern Poetry, Diane Seuss
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British translator Karen Leeder and German writer Durs Grünbein win Griffin Poetry Prize
TORONTO - British scholar Karen Leeder's translation of 'Psyche Running' by Durs Grünbein has won the Griffin Poetry Prize. They were awarded the $130,000 literary prize at a ceremony in Toronto. Leeder is a professor of German language and literature at Oxford University, and the Griffin judges praise her translation as being 'universal, lyrical, philosophical.' This is the second time a translation of work by Grünbein, who lives in Berlin, has been shortlisted for the Griffin. 'Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems,' translated by Michael Hoffmann, was a finalist for the International Griffin Poetry Prize in 2006, before the Canadian and global prizes were combined. Margaret Atwood also received the $25,000 Lifetime Recognition Award at the poetry reading and ceremony. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 5, 2025.
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CP NewsAlert: British translator Karen Leeder and German writer Durs Grünbein win Griffin Poetry Prize
TORONTO - British scholar Karen Leeder's translation of 'Psyche Running' by Durs Grünbein has won the $130,000 Griffin Poetry Prize. More coming
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Karen Leeder's English translation of Durs Grünbein's Psyche Running wins Griffin Poetry Prize
Karen Leeder's translation of Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005-2022, by German poet and essayist Durs Grünbein, took the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize at a Toronto gala on Wednesday evening. The international prize, founded in 2000 by Canadian businessman Scott Griffin, is worth $130,000. In the case of translated works, 60 per cent goes to the translator; 40 per cent, to the original author. Published by Seagull Books, Psyche Running covers the development of Mr. Grünbein's poems over the past two decades. The Griffin Poetry Prize judges cited the book as a 'brilliant overview and selection of a poet who satisfies our hunger to be serious.' The judges cited Ms. Leeder's translations from German to English as 'universal, lyrical, philosophical.' She is a British writer, translator and scholar of German culture who has previously won awards for her translations of Mr. Grünbein's work. Born in Dresden in 1962, Mr. Grünbein is considered the most significant and successful poet of his generation in Germany. Michael Hofmann's Ashes for Breakfast, which sampled poetry from the German's first four collections, brought the author into English for the first time in 2005, and was shortlisted for the Griffin in 2006. The poetry fans at Koerner Hall not only took in readings from Mr. Grünbein, Ms. Leeder and other shortlisted writers, but witnessed the presentation of the 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award (worth $25,000) to the esteemed Margaret Atwood, a Griffin Poetry Prize co-founder and trustee emeritus. Margaret Atwood to be presented with Lifetime Recognition Award by Griffin Poetry Prize trustees Griffin Poetry Prize eliminating category reserved for Canadian poets The 85-year-old author of The Handmaid's Tale published her first book of poetry in 1961. She was joined in conversation on stage with Griffin trustee and U.S. poet Carolyn Forché. This year's other shortlisted books were Modern Poetry, by Diane Seuss; The Great Zoo, translated by Aaron Coleman from the Spanish written by Nicolás Guillén; Scattered Snows, to the North, by Carl Phillips; and Kiss the Eyes of Peace, translated by Brian Henry from the Slovenian written by Tomaž Šalamun. Each of the finalists receive $10,000. When the Griffin was founded, separate prizes went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. In 2022, the two awards were consolidated into a single international prize. This year's jury members were Northern Irish poet, novelist and critic Nick Laird, Polish poet and translator Tomasz Różycki, and Toronto poet and novelist Anne Michaels, winner of last year's Giller Prize for the novel Held. They each read 578 books of poetry, including 47 translations from 20 languages, submitted by 219 publishers from 17 different countries. Whitehorse poet Dawn Macdonald read from her Northerny, this year's Canadian First Book Prize winner. Calgary's Isabella Torres Rangel, one of the finalists for the Canada-wide student recitation competition Poetry in Voice/Les voix de la poésie, recited the poem Lake Michigan, by Daniel Borzutzky. Last year's Griffin winner was George McWhirter, the son of a shipyard worker and Vancouver's first poet laureate.
