Ann Cotten

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Ann Cotten (1982), is a writer and translator from Vienna, Austria, based in Berlin, writing in German and English. Recent translations include books by J. Wenderoth, I. Waidner, R. Waldrop, L. Russell, A. Green, articles by K. Sasaki, M. Ishida and M. Shinohara, poetry by Hachikai Mimi, Julian Brolaski, Margaret Atwood and others. “Rotten Kinck Schow” with M. Rinck and Sabine Scho 2007-2014. Cotten’s English language work is published by Broken Dimanche Press (I, Coleoptile, 2013; Lather In Heaven, 2016).

Her over 15 German works are published with Suhrkamp and various smaller publishers. Cotten’s most recent book in German is “Poller. Idyllen” (edition suhrkamp 2026). Co-editor of Triëdere, Austrian journal for theoretical literature, since 2023.

She is currently working on her PhD “Aesthetics of Misuseability” at FU Berlin, revolving around a materialist poetics as basis for thinking about translingual, transtemporal and transcultural poetics. She is also involved in „Oswald Wiener Lesekreis“, an artistic research group on theories of meaning and perception and their political and literary implications.

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