Mustafa Kör

Mustafa Kör is an author and poet who was born in Konya (Turkey) in 1976. When he was three years old, he and his family emigrated to Limburg. In 1998 he sustained a serious car accident and since then he has been bound to a wheelchair, an event that gave him the urge to grab his pen and so his promising writers carreer was born. His successful debut novel De Lammeren (The Lambs, 2007) was followed by his poetry debut Ben jij liefde (Are you love, 2016), for which he was nominated for the TAZ-Debut Prize. Furthermore, his work was awarded the Biennial Culture Prize of Maasmechelen, the El Hizjra Literature Prize and De Groene Waterman Public Prize. In 2008, Mustafa Kör was the municipal poet for the city of Genk for a year. He was recently announced to become the Poeta Laureate (https://www.dichterdesvaderlan...) of Belgium in 2022. He is also the godfather of Het Lezerscollectief (https://lezerscollectief.be/nl...), an organisation based on the English format ‘Shared Reading’ from the Reader Organisation in Liverpool. Het Lezerscollectief aims to connect people and to make them stonger and more resilient through reading together.