Nora Gomringer at Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival

As part of the 32nd International Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival, Nora Gomringer will read poems.

Nora Gomringer, Swiss and German, lives in Bamberg, where she is director of Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia. She was born in 1980 in Neunkirchen/Saar and studied German, English, and History of Art in Bamberg. She has been a published poet since 2000, and performs both readings and musical collaborations. Her work has spread to radio, TV, and the Internet, she is a regular columnist in print and radio. Her YouTube channel shows her works in film.

She has received numerous international residency scholarships, lectureships and invitations to perform from the Goethe-Institut and Pro Helvetia, among others, which have taken her around the globe.  

She has been honored for her work with the Jacob Grimm Prize for German Language (2011), the Joachim Ringelnatz Prize (2012), and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2015) among other prizes.

Supported by Goethe-Institut Irland.