Deniz Utlu

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.