Poet, novelist
and essayist Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives
in Wilhelmshorst, near Berlin, and in Stockholm. After an apprenticeship in
construction, he worked as a carpenter and bricklayer. Since 1997, he has been
the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Haus. His writing has
won many prizes, including the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, the Ingeborg Bachmann
and the German Book Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. His
prize-winning second novel
Star 111, his volume of non-fiction
In
Case of Loss and the poetry collection
Pitch & Glint are published in 2023 in English by And
Other Stories. Some of his stories, poems and essays have appeared in English
in journals and magazines including
Granta, Modern Poetry in Translation,
PN Review,
Poetry,
PROTOTYPE, the
New Statesman,
Shearsman,
Stand, the
TLS and
The White Review.
Born in Belém, Brazil, to English and Swiss parents, Stefan
Tobler is a translator and the founder of And Other Stories. Authors he has
translated include Clarice Lispector, Raduan Nassar and Arno Geiger. He grew up
in northern Brazil and southern England, and has now made his home in the Dark
Peak.