Ariane Koch, Deniz Utlu and Dana Vowinckel Longlisted for the »Text & Sprache« Prize 2024

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13.02.2024
Beitrag zu Ariane Koch, Deniz Utlu and Dana Vowinckel Longlisted for the »Text & Sprache« Prize 2024
Ariane Koch, Deniz Utlu and Dana Vowinckel have made the longlist for the »Text & Sprache« prize 2024. Koch has been nominated for her play Kranke Hunde (Sick Dogs). The piece premiered in January and will be published in the Suhrkamp Theater series in autumn. Utlu has received the nomination for his novel Father's Sea, while Vowinckel made the list for her debut novel, The World in a Ziplock Bag.

The »Text & Sprache« prize was first awarded in 1953 by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, honouring »young, outstanding voices in contemporary literature«. This year, the jury, chaired by Dr Marcella Prior-Callwey, has nominated 10 authors of novels, plays, or short stories. 

The award comes with a cash prize of €20,000, and aims to support authors and playwrights through collaborations with theatres and other partners. In March, the jury will announce the shortlist. 

For more information on Father's Sea, The World in a Ziplock Bag, or on Koch's novel Overstaying, contact the foreign rights manager for your region.

Deniz Utlu

Deniz Utlu was born in Hannover in 1983 and studied economics at the Free University of Berlin and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His debut novel Die Ungehaltenen was published in 2014 and was adapted for the stage at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin in 2015. His second novel, Gegen Morgen, was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2019. For his most recent novel, Vaters Meer, he won the Bavarian Book Prize 2023, the Literatour Nord Prize 2024 and is shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2024. Utlu lives in Berlin.
Deniz Utlu was born in Hannover in 1983 and studied economics at the Free University of Berlin and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His...
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Ariane Koch

Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. She writes – also in collaboration – theatre and performance texts, radio plays and prose. Her texts have won numerous awards and have been performed in places like Basel, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul and Moscow. Ariane Koch has been granted various fellowships, including one from the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris (2020). She has been teaching at the Institute for Aesthetic Practice and Theory at the Basel School of Art and Design since 2019. Die Aufdrängung is her debut novel.
Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. She writes – also in collaboration – theatre and...
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Dana Vowinckel

Dana Vowinckel was born in Berlin in 1996 into an American-Jewish-German family. She grew up bilingually and bi-culturally between Chicago and Berlin, and studied linguistics and literature in Berlin, Toulouse and Cambridge. At the 2021 Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, she was awarded a prize for an excerpt from The World in a Ziplock Bag, her debut novel. Today, Dana Vowinckel lives in Berlin.
Dana Vowinckel was born in Berlin in 1996 into an American-Jewish-German family. She grew up bilingually and bi-culturally between Chicago and...
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