Deniz Utlu receives Alfred Döblin Prize 2021
News09.05.2021
We are delighted to announce that author Deniz Utlu has been awarded the Alfred Döblin Prize 2021.
The jury stated the following: »Deniz Utlu constructs the story of a father-son-relationship in memories. His narrator enters into an inner dialogue with his father that revolves around the existential topics of their life: the creation of masculinity, questions of fate and spirituality, experiences of migration and belonging. In an unmediated moving and humorous languages he lets readers participate in the conflicts, celebrations and everyday life of a family. Utlu opens up a geography of memory for German literature that spans from Hannover to the far end of Turkey, to the Syrian border.«
The Alfred Döblin Prize was endowed by Günter Grass in 1979 and is awarded every two years to an unpublished literary work in progress by the Academy of Arts Berlin and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. It was designed by its founder to commemorate and honour Döblin as one of the most versatile modern German writers. The prize is endowed with 15,000 Euros.
For more information please visit the author's Foreign Rights Website or contact the respective Rights Manager.
The jury stated the following: »Deniz Utlu constructs the story of a father-son-relationship in memories. His narrator enters into an inner dialogue with his father that revolves around the existential topics of their life: the creation of masculinity, questions of fate and spirituality, experiences of migration and belonging. In an unmediated moving and humorous languages he lets readers participate in the conflicts, celebrations and everyday life of a family. Utlu opens up a geography of memory for German literature that spans from Hannover to the far end of Turkey, to the Syrian border.«
The Alfred Döblin Prize was endowed by Günter Grass in 1979 and is awarded every two years to an unpublished literary work in progress by the Academy of Arts Berlin and the Literary Colloquium Berlin. It was designed by its founder to commemorate and honour Döblin as one of the most versatile modern German writers. The prize is endowed with 15,000 Euros.
For more information please visit the author's Foreign Rights Website or contact the respective Rights Manager.