Deniz Utlu Shortlisted for the Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2023

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11.09.2023
Beitrag zu Deniz Utlu Shortlisted for the Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis 2023
Deniz Utlu's novel Father's Sea is one of just five books shortlisted for the prestigious Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis. 

The Wilhelm Raabe-Literaturpreis is one of the major literary prizes in the German-speaking world and is administered by Deutschlandfunk and the City of Braunschweig. Endowed with EUR 30,000, the prize is awarded annually to a work of narrative written in German. Previous winners include Christian Kracht, Thomas Hettche, Marion Poschmann, Judith Schalansky, and Clemens J. Setz. The final decision of the judges will be announced at an awards ceremony in Braunschweig on November 5, 2023. 

You can find out more about Father's Sea here, or by contacting the Rights Manager for your region.

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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