Özlem Özgül Dündar

Özlem Özgül Dündar (born 1983 in Solingen, Germany) is a German poet, essayist, translator, and novelist.

Personal life Dündar was born in Solingen, Germany. She attended the University of Wuppertal and studied philosophy and literature there. After traveling to Ireland, where she completed a semester abroad, Turkey, and Paris, she worked with several artists collectives, among other Kanack Attak Leipzig, Kaltsignal, GID, and the Ministry for Compassion.

She moved to Leipzig in 2015 to attend the German Institute for Literature, where she experienced a lot of racially motivated attacks on refugee homes, which ultimately inspired her to write her debut screenplay.

Career Dündar writes poetry, prose, essays, and translates from Turkish.

The screenplay was adapted into a novel published in 2021. and she co-published the anthology Flexen – Flâneusen * schreiben Städte, published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2019.

Stipends, awards, and prizes

2010: Düsseldorf Förderpreis 2015: Retzhof Drama Prize 2017: Work stipend of North Rhine-Westphalia 2018: Kelag-Preis Award at the Ingeborg-Bachmann contest in Klagenfurt for an excerpt of Turks, Fire 2018: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann stipend from the city of Cologne 2019: Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize 2020: Audio drama of the year honor for the audia drama adaptation of Turks, Fire 2021: Casa Baldi stipend