Bio
Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç (*1989) is a political scientist and award-winning poet based in Berlin. He studied social sciences in Vienna, Berlin and Cambridge and teaches at Berlin universities. While he is the author of a growing number of non-fiction books on migration and anti-Muslim racism, Prinzenbad (2022, Elif Verlag) is his literary debut which earned him nominations for both the Heidelberg Clemens Brentano Prize as well as the Dresden Poetry Prize in 2024. This year he will be awarded 2nd place in the Feldkirch Poetry Prize in Austria.
His texts are published in various literary journals and anthologies and translated into different languages, including English, Italian, Kazakh and Czech. Keskinkılıç’s work is featured in multimedia art exhibitions at the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Literaturpassage Vienna and most recently at the ACUD Gallery in Berlin. In his poems, Muslim spirituality, memory and queer desire make up the literary coordinates for a futurist journey through alternative geographies.