Bio
Anne-Marie Kenessey is a Swiss poet based in Zurich. Her German poems have been published in various literary magazines, amongst others, SpracheimtechnischenZeitalter no. 190 (Berlin, Germany), Wespennest no. 156 and no. 164 (Vienna, Austria, August 2009 and May 2013), poet no. 14 (Leipzig, Germany, March 2013) and allmende no. 88 (Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2011), in the anthology Jahrbuch der Lyrik no. 30 (Munich, 2015) and in the Swiss national newspaper Tages-Anzeiger (Zurich, December 2012). Her first book, the poetry collection “Im Fossil verstecktsich das Seepferdvordir” (Edition Isele, 2012), received the award of the Canton of Zurich in July 2012. With a selection of new poems she won the Munich poetry prize in 2012. Some of her poems have been translated to Hungarian by Hungarian writer GyörgyDalos and have appeared in the cultural magazine Magyar LettreInternationale, Budapest. Since 2009 she is editor of the Swiss literary magazine orte. Her translations of French poems and short prose into German have been published in it.