Tonda Montasser

Tonda Montasser, born in 2011 in Berlin, began writing fiction in the first lockdown and poetry in the second. Awarded with the THEO 2021-25, at the Treffen junger Autor*innen 2022/24, the 2025 “Connected” Award from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and at the lyrix national competion 2021-26. His poems have recently been published by etceterapress, Signaturen Magazin and manuskripte, in English translation by Shane Anderson in “Urbane Praxis”. In 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026 he performed at the International Literature Festival Berlin and in 2024 at the Poesiefestival Berlin. He loves action waves, chess, movies, Twin Peaks, Kafka, Sarah Kane and Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments.