The Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion awards to 15 authors living in Berlin working fellowships for literature in non-German language.

Furhad Khan is one of 15 scholarship awardees along with: Barbaros F. Altuğ, Orhan Murat Bahtiyar, Emet Ezell, Angelica Freitas, Eduardo Halfon, Micheala Holt, Stefano Jorio, Avrina Jos Joslin Thambi, Pedro Kadivar, Anna Melikova, Marija Pavlovic, Oscar Perdomo, Jade Samson-Kermarrec, Qing Zhou.

The independent jury had to decide on 277 applications this year. The applications were assessed by the following jury members:

Irina Bondas, Hernán D. Caro, Leila Chammaa, Jean-Baptiste Coursaud, Karolina Golimowska, Lea Hübner und Achim Wagner.