Deniz Utlu

Deniz Utlu, born in Hannover in 1983, published the novels Die Ungehaltenen [The Unrestrained] (2014), Gegen Morgen [Against Tomorrow] (2019) and Vaters Meer [Father’s Sea] (2023). His work has received numerous awards, including the Bavarian Book Prize, the Literatour Nord Literature Prize, and the Alfred Döblin Prize, among others. Play adaptations of his work were produced in 2015 at the Maxim Gorki Theatre and in 2024 at the Schauspiel Hannover. Utlu has also published essays on politics and poetry. He taught creative writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig, at the Institut für Sprachkunst in Vienna and at the UdK in Berlin. Until 2014, he spent 10 years editing the cultural and social magazine freitext.