Ernest Wichner

Ernest Wichner, born in Guttenbrunn (Banat, Romania) in 1952, has lived in Germany since 1975. He was Director of the Literaturhaus Berlin from 2003-2017. He is the author of poems and short stories as well as a translator, mainly from Romanian. His translations include works by Norman Manea, Ana Blandiana, Nora Iuga and Varujan Vosganian. In 2020, he was honoured with the Johann Heinrich Voß Prize, awarded by the German Academy for Language and Literature, for his services to Romanian literature. In 2024, his translation of Mircea Cărtărescu’s novel Theodoros was published by Zsolnay Verlag.