About Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç
Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, born in 1989, studied political science in Vienna, Berlin and Cambridge. His poetry debut, "Prinzenbad", was published in 2022, followed by the non-fiction book "Muslimaniac. Die Karriere eines Feindbildes" in 2023. His texts have been published in magazines and anthologies (including "anders bleiben", 2023) and translated into several languages. He was nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize and the Dresden Poetry Prize and was awarded the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize in 2025. "Hundesohn" is his first novel.