Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç Shortlisted for the ZDF-»aspekte« Literary Prize 2025

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08.09.2025
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Ozan Zakariya Keskinkiliç has been shortlisted for the ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize 2025 for his novel Son of a Dog.

A total of five finalists have made it onto the jury's shortlist for the»best literary debut of the year.« This year's jury members are Mara Delius (Die Welt), Christian Dunker (Geistesblüten, Berlin), Daniel Fiedler (ZDF), David Hugendick (DIE ZEIT), and Nicola Steiner (Literaturhaus Zürich). ZDF has been awarding this prize in recognition of the best German-language prose debut since 1979. Previous winners include Deniz Ohde, Vea Kaiser, Katja Petrowskaja, Ingo Schulze, Stephan Thome, and later Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller.

The ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize comes with a cash prize of €10,000 and will be awarded on Thursday 16 October 2025 as part of a public event at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The winner will also be featured on the “aspekte” program on 17 October 2025.

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç was born in 1989 and studied political science in Vienna, Berlin, and Cambridge. In 2022, his first collection of poetry, Prinzenbad, was published by Elif Verlag, and in 2023, he published the non-fiction work, Muslimaniac: Die Karriere eines Feindbildes with Verbrecher Verlag. His work has been published in prominent periodicals and anthologies and has been translated into multiple languages. He has been nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize and the Dresden Poetry Prize, and received the Wolfgang Weyrauch Advancement Prize in 2025. Hundesohn (Son of a Dog) is his first novel.
Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç was born in 1989 and studied political science in Vienna, Berlin, and Cambridge. In 2022, his first collection of poetry,...
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