Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, born in 1989, studied in Vienna, Berlin, and Cambridge. In addition to poetry, he writes radio plays, theatre pieces, prose, columns, and essays. His poetry debut “Prinzenbad” was published by Elif Verlag in 2022, followed in 2023 by the non-fiction book “Muslimaniac: The Career of an Enemy Image” with Verbrecher Verlag. His texts have been published in journals and anthologies, translated into several languages, and presented in multimedia exhibitions in museums and galleries. He was nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize and the Dresden Poetry Prize, and was awarded the Wolfgang Weyrauch Advancement Prize. In September 2025, his debut novel “Hundesohn” was published by Suhrkamp; for this work, he received the ZDF aspekte Literature Prize and the Max Frisch Advancement Prize of the City of Zurich. He lives in Berlin.