Ronya Othmann
Germany
Ronya Othmann was born in Munich in 1963 and currently works as a freelance writer and journalist in Leipzig. Along with prose, poems, and essays, she has written the regular column Import Export for the FAZ since 2021. She has won numerous awards, including the Mara Cassens Prize for her debut novel Die Sommer (The Summers).
In her new novel, Vierundsiebzig (Forty-Seven), Ronya Othmann writes about her own family history. She documents the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State and masterfully alternates between reportage, essay, and travel writing. Where language usually fails, Othmann treats this complex historial topic with relentless thoroughness and does not grant herself or her readers any opportunity to indulge in the privilege of ignorance. In the FAZ am Sonntag, Alexandru Bulucz called the novel “a milestone in literary genocide research.”
The Summers. Novel. Translated by Gary Schmidt. UVW Press 2023
Vierundsiebzig. Roman. Rowohlt 2024
die Verbrechen. Gedichte. Hanser 2021
Die Sommer. Roman. Hanser 2020
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