Artist

Ronya Othmann

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Ronya Othmann, born in 1993, is an author. In 2020, Hanser Verlag published her debut novel Die Sommer, for which she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize. She has also received, among others, the MDR Literature Prize, the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing, the open mikec Poetry Prize, and the Audience Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. In 2018, she was on the jury of the Duhok International Film Festival in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, Iraq, and wrote the column OrientExpress on Middle East politics for the taz together with Cemile Sahin until August 2020. Since 2021 she has been writing the column Import Export for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. In October 2021 her poetry collection die verbrechen (Hanser) will be published.

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