Joachim Sartorius
/Germany, 1946
Joachim Sartorius was born in Fürth (Bavaria) in 1946 and grew up in Tunis. He studied law and political science in Munich, London and Paris and served as a diplomat in New York, Istanbul and Nicosia until 1986. Joachim Sartorius holds a professorship at the University of Arts in Berlin, where he lives. His wide-ranging publishing projects include translations of the Collected Works of Malcolm Lowry and William Carlos Williams, as well as works by Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery and Allen Curnow, among many other books, and the highly regarded international poetry anthologies Atlas der neuen Poesie (Atlas of New Poetry, 1995) and Minima Poetica (1999). His own poetry has been collected in seven volumes, and is now also available in Arabic, Dutch, French, English, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene and Spanish editions. Joachim Sartorius was recently awarded the Paul Scheerbart Prize for his translations of contemporary American poetry.