Ronya Othmann
Germany
Ronya Othmann was born in Munich in 1993 and now lives in Leipzig as a freelance writer and journalist. In addition to prose, poetry and essays, her column Import Export has appeared in the FAS since 2021. She has received several awards; her novel
A few weeks after the fall of the Assad regime in 2024, Othmann travelled to Syria for research purposes – with her Kurdish-Yazidi father, who fled the country in 1980. In the collection of reportage resulting from this journey,
Othmann tells the stories of people whom no one else hears; of the minorities who remain under threat even after the regime’s fall. “I write so that their stories do not disappear,” she says herself in an interview in the Tages-Anzeiger. Given the recent developments in the Kurdish-populated part of Syria, it is a stroke of luck that Othmann made use of this small window of opportunity so that
31st Leukerbad International Literary Festival:
