Deniz Utlu

Deniz Utlu was born in Hanover, lives in Berlin, and writes. He founded the culture and society magazine freitext and studied economics in Berlin and Paris. His debut novel Die Ungehaltenen (The Discontented) was published in 2014 (Graf Verlag). His second novel, Gegen Morgen (Towards Morning), was published in 2019 (Suhrkamp Verlag). Vaters Meer (Father's Sea, 2023) was awarded the Special Prize of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2024.