Lütfiye Güzel

Lütfiye Güzel, born in Duisburg in 1972, is a poet and has been publishing poems under her own label go-güzel-publishing since 2014. In 2014, she received the Fakir Baykurt Culture Prize of the City of Duisburg and in 2017 the Ruhr Literature Prize. Her current book ich.soll.ruhiger.werden is recommended poetry 2024 (German Academy for Language and Poetry).

In her poems, Lütfiye Güzel observes the everyday and the human between humour and melancholy and at the same time paints a pointed, socio-critical picture of the present. The resistant potential of Lütfiye Güzel's poetry is also evident in the way she incorporates materiality and craft into her works: newspaper clippings assembled into collages yield a different meaning and passages of text are given a new interpretation by deleting words or sentences.