Author, Translator and Curator
Marie Luise Knott

Author, Translator and Curator
Marie Luise Knott

Born in Cologne, Marie Luise Knott, began her career as an editor at Rotbuch Verlag after completing her studies. She founded and directed the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique from 1995 to 2006. Since 2006, she has worked as a freelance author, publisher, translator and curator. Alongside monographs, edited volumes and contributions to anthologies, she has run the poetry column Tagtigall on the online magazine Perlentaucher since 2013. Her essay book Unlearning with Hannah Arendt was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2011. In 2022, she received the prestigious Tractatus Essay Prize from the Philosophicum Lech for her long essay 370 Riverside Drive, 730 Riverside Drive: Hannah Arendt and Ralph Waldo Ellison (2022). In 2024, she was awarded the Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in recognition of her life’s work.