Paul Celan

Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (the pseudonym adopts an anagram of his surname in Romanian, Ancel) (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970), who is considered one of the few major poets of the post-World War II era. He was born in Romania, lived in Austria and later in France, and wrote in German. In additional to the composition of his poetry, he was an extremely active translator, translating literature from Romanian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and English into German.

Bilingual

Paul Celan. Biographie et interpretation/Biographie und Interpretation, editor Andrei Corbea Hoisie

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Biography

• Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew John Felstiner (1995)

Selected Criticism

• Celan Studies Peter Szondi, translated by Susan Bernofsky and Harvey Mendelsohn (2003)
• Word Traces Aris Fioretes (ed.), includes contribution by Jacques Derrida (a translation of his Schibboleth), Werner Hamacher, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1994)
• Poetry as Experience Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, translated by Andrea Tarnowski (1999)