Anna Ospelt (born 1987) is a Liechtensteiner writer. She was born in Vaduz, where she currently lives. She went to university in Basel, Switzerland.
Her books include:
Wurzelstudien was nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize. Frühe Pflanzung was nominated for the EU Prize for Literature. Ospelt received a Nature Writing Scholarship from the Nantesbuch Foundation as part of the German Prize for Nature Writing in 2019. [1] [2]
Ospelt has also translated works of poetry from English to German. [3]
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