Overview

• Judges lauded Leeder’s work as “universal, lyrical, philosophical” and called the volume a “brilliant overview and selection” of two decades of Grünbein’s poetry.
• Other shortlisted works included original collections by Diane Seuss and Carl Phillips and translations of Nicolás Guillén and Tomaž Šalamun, each earning C$10,000.
• This year’s jury of Nick Laird, Anne Michaels and Tomasz Różycki sifted through 578 titles from 17 countries before selecting Psyche Running.
• Leeder, who holds the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German Language and Literature at Oxford, has previously won awards for translating Grünbein’s poetry and other contemporary German works.
• Margaret Atwood, a co-founder and trustee emeritus of the prize, received the 2025 Lifetime Recognition Award valued at C$25,000 during the Toronto gala.