Sharon Dodua Otoo

Sharon Dodua Otoo is a migrant, novelist, and political activist. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin. Her debut novel Adas Raum was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2021 and has been translated into several languages. In collaboration with the Ruhrfestspiele, one of the oldest, largest and most renowned theatre festivals in Europe, she curated the black German-language literature festival Resonanzen from 2022-2024.