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Jan Wagner (born 1971 in Hamburg) is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize. In 2001, his first volume of poetry Probebohrung im Himmel was published. Wagner's poems have been translated into thirty languages. Wagner is also a translator of English-language poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney and others), a freelance reviewer (Frankfurter Rundschau and others) and until 2003 co-editor of the international literature box "The Outside of the Element". Since 1995, he lives in Berlin.