Mustafa Kör is an author and poet born in Konya, Turkey, in 1976. After a serious car accident in 1998 left him wheelchair-bound, he began a promising writing career. His debut novel De Lammeren (2007) and poetry collection Ben jij liefde (2016) received several awards and nominations. In 2022, he was named Poet Laureate of Belgium and is also the patron of Het Lezerscollectief, an organization focused on shared reading experiences.