Sharon Dodua Otoo

Sharon Dodua Otoo, born in London in 1972, is a writer, editor and political activist. She edited the English-language book series “Witnessed” and curated the Black literature festival “Resonanzen.” In 2016, she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text “Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin.” Her works include the novellas “die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächle” and “Synchronicity,” the novels “Adas Raum” and “So, in etwa, ist es geschehen,” and the speech “Dürfen Schwarze Blumen Malen?”, which she delivered as the 2020 Klagenfurt Speech on Literature. In 2025, she delivered the Zurich Poetics Lecture.