Deniz Utlu

Deniz Utlu (1983, Hanover) is a writer and essayist. He received the Alfred Döblin Prize for an excerpt from his novel Vaters Meer (to be published in 2023). In 2019, the novel Gegen Morgen was published. His novel Die Ungehaltenen (2014) was adapted for the stage at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin. Utlu researches human rights at the Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Berlin. He teaches literary writing at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig and at the Institute of Language Arts, Vienna. Utlu lives and works in Berlin.
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