Dinçer Güçyeter was honoured with the 2023 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Unser Deutschlandmärchen (Fairtayles of Our Germany). In 2022 he received the Peter Huchel Prize for his volume of poetry Mein Prinz, ich bin das Ghetto (My Prince, I am the Ghetto). Furthermore, he’s the founder of the small publisher ELIF, which focuses on poetry in particular and which Güçyeter also finances through his part-time work as a forklift operator. Unser Deutschlandmärchen will celebrate its premiere at the Gorki in April, directed by Hakan Savaş Mican.
