Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2016: Sharon Dodua Otoo has won the most prestigious German-language literary award. Philip Oltermann from The Guardian describes her work as "fabulous," "impressive," and highlights the "long-lasting stumbling blocks" as well as the "satire, wit, and irony." Sharon Dodua Otoo evokes great enthusiasm with her writing and thinking. In her first two novellas, 'The Things I Think While I Smile Politely' and 'Synchronicity,' she tells stories with fantastic ease, heartfelt humor, and unflinching insight about colors and shades of gray, uncertainties, and empowerment. She married a German man, the most beautiful man, and proudly bore his name until it turned out that his other wife was being deported. In 'The Things I Think While I Smile Politely,' Sharon Dodua Otoo narrates a bitter loss, an unflinching reckoning.