Sharon Dodua Otoo is a novelist and political activist. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin. Her first novel Adas Raum was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2021 and has been translated into several languages, including two English language versions Ada's Realm (MacLehose Press, 2023) and Ada's Room (Riverhead Books, 2023). In collaboration with the Ruhrfestspiele, one of the oldest, largest and most renowned theatre festivals in Europe, she curates the Black German-language literature festival "Resonanzen".

Selected Publications
2022| Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin. Drei Texte, Verlag S. Fischer
2021 | Adas Raum (novel), Verlag S. Fischer
2022 | "Snippets of Silence," in: Heinrich Böll, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Collected Silence, Edition Zweifel
2014 | Synchronicity (novella), edition assemblage
2013 | die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächele (novella), edition assemblage
 
Selected Prizes and Awards
2023 | Max Kade Writer-in-Residence, Lafayette College
2022 | Schroeder Writer-in-Residence, Cambridge University
2022 | Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
2021 | Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University
2019 | TAGEWERK Fellowship, Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation
2018 | German Literature Fund Scholarship
2016 | Ingeborg Bachmann Prize