writer
Picture credit: Sita Ngoumou, 2020
Books
Picture credit: Ralf Steinberger, 2014
Bio
Sharon Dodua Otoo is an author and a political activist.
She writes prose and essays and is editor of the English-language book series "Witnessed" (edition assemblage). Her first novellas "the things i am thinking while smiling politely" and "Synchronicity" were published in German translation by S. Fischer Verlag in 2017. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text "Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin" She gave the inaugural speech at the 2020 Festival of German Language Literature which was published by Verlag Heyn. Her first novel "Adas Raum" is written in German and will be published in February 2021 by S. Fischer Verlag. Otoo is politically active with the registered associations Initiative Black People in Germany and Phoenix. She lives with her family in Berlin.
Books
Press
It was simply phenomenal how naturally Sharon Dodua Otoo moved from the minute to the cosmic and back again.
RICHARD KÄMMERLINGS,
Die Welt
Contact
Media enquiries:
julia.giordano [at] fischerverlage.de
Speaking & reading
invitations:
janina.bradacs [at] fischerverlage.de
All other enquiries:
bookings [at] sharonotoo.com