Sharon Dodua Otoo: the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winner reads from her first novel written in German

Sharon Dodua Otoo is a British writer with a Ghanaian background who lives in Berlin. She became known for her first short story in German, "Herr Gröttrupp setzt sich hin", for which she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016. On Thursday 23 November, she will be reading from her first novel Ada's Welt at the Goethe-Institut in Sydney. We spoke to her.

Sharon Dodu Otoo ist nicht nur Schriftstellerin, sondern auch als Aktivistin bekannt. Credit: WikiCoommons_Heike Hulsage-Koch