Deniz Utlu Receives a Special Mention in the European Union Literature Prize 2024

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04.04.2024
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At yesterday's awards ceremony for the European Union Literature Prize 2024 at the Brussels Book Fair, Deniz Utlu received a special mention for his novel Father's Sea

The aim of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) is to place a spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature in the field of fiction, promote the circulation of literature within Europe, and encourage greater interest in international literary works.

The Prize is open to the 41 countries currently involved in the Creative Europe programme. Each year, national organisations in a third of the participating countries nominate potential winning novels, making it possible for all countries and language areas to be represented over a three-year cycle. Father''s Sea was chosen as this year''s German nominee by the Goethe Institut. 

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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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