Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç Wins the ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize 2025
News09.10.2025
Suhrkamp Verlag is thrilled to announce that Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç has been awarded the ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize 2025 for his debut novel, Son of a Dog.
In their public remarks, the judges had the following to say about Son of a Dog: »The novel is an assured and explicitly composed maelstrom of motifs, poetic forms, languages, religious quotations, personal memories, and migrant experience. Bodies, desire, heritage, and spirituality all intertwine, forming a densely narrated, literarily precise debut, that possesses both incisiveness in its social analysis and poetic force.«
The ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize is endowed with €10,000 and will be awarded at a public event at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16 October 2025. Keskinkılıç is the 47th winner of the prize, which has previously gone to authors such as Deniz Ohde, Katja Petrowskaja, Ingo Schulze, Stephan Thome, and later Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. The author will also be featured on the “aspekte” TV programme on 17 October 2025.
In their public remarks, the judges had the following to say about Son of a Dog: »The novel is an assured and explicitly composed maelstrom of motifs, poetic forms, languages, religious quotations, personal memories, and migrant experience. Bodies, desire, heritage, and spirituality all intertwine, forming a densely narrated, literarily precise debut, that possesses both incisiveness in its social analysis and poetic force.«
The ZDF »aspekte« Literary Prize is endowed with €10,000 and will be awarded at a public event at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16 October 2025. Keskinkılıç is the 47th winner of the prize, which has previously gone to authors such as Deniz Ohde, Katja Petrowskaja, Ingo Schulze, Stephan Thome, and later Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller. The author will also be featured on the “aspekte” TV programme on 17 October 2025.