Karen Leeder’s English translation of Durs Grünbein’s Psyche Running wins Griffin Poetry Prize

Karen Leeder’s English translation of Durs Grünbein’s Psyche Running wins Griffin Poetry Prize

Karen Leeder's translation of Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005-2022, by German poet and essayist Durs Grünbein won the Griffin Poetry Prize on Wednesday.

Karen Leeder’s translation of Psyche Running: Selected Poems, 2005-2022 , by German poet and essayist Durs Grünbein, took the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize at a Toronto gala on Wednesday evening.

The international prize, founded in 2000 by Canadian businessman Scott Griffin, is worth $130,000. In the case of translated works, 60 per cent goes to the translator; 40 per cent, to the original author.

Published by Seagull Books, Psyche Running covers the development of Mr. Grünbein’s poems over the past two decades. The Griffin Poetry P