Ronya Othmann

Ronya Othmann, born in Munich in 1993 to a German mother and a Kurdish-Yazidi father, writes poetry, prose, and essays and works as a journalist. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Open Mike Poetry Prize, the MDR Literature Prize, and the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing. For Die Sommer (The Summers), her first novel, she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize in 2020, and for her poetry collection die verbrechen (the crimes, 2021), she received the Orphil Debut Prize, the Horst Bienek Prize Sponsorship Award, and the Horst Bingel Prize in 2022. Vierundsiebzig (Seventy-Four), her second novel, was nominated for the German Book Prize and awarded the Düsseldorf Literature Prize, the SWR Best List Prize 2024, and the Erich Loest Prize 2025.