Ronya Othmann, born in Munich in 1993, writes poetry, prose and essays and works as a journalist. She has received many awards for her writing, including the Open Mike Poetry Prize, the MDR Literature Prize and the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing. She was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize in 2020 for Die Sommer, her first novel, and the Orphil Debut Prize, the Horst Bienek Prize and the Horst Bingel Prize in 2022 for her poetry collection die verbrechen (2021). Vierundsiebzig, her second novel, was nominated for the German Book Prize and awarded the Düsseldorf Literature Prize in 2024 and the Erich Loest Prize in 2025.
