Name Antje Strubel Role Writer | Books Tupolev 134 | |
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Education State University of New York at Potsdam | ||
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Antje Rávic Strubel (*April 12, 1974) is a German writer, translator, and literary critic. She lives in Potsdam.
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Life
Antje Strubel was born in Potsdam and grew up in Ludwigsfelde, East Germany. After leaving school, Antje Strubel first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied literature, psychology and American studies in Potsdam and New York. In New York she also worked as a lighting assistant in a theater. Born Antje Strubel, she took the name Rávic to designate her writing identity.
Critical reception
Strubel is part of a generation of writers who were born in East Germany but started publishing after the fall of the Wall. Much of her fiction deals with identity and transformation in contemporary Europe. In 2001, she published her first two novels, Offene Blende and Unter Schnee (translated as Snowed Under). That year she also received the Ernst Willner Prize in Klagenfurt. Like many of her texts, both of these novels focus on East and West German women traveling abroad and reinventing themselves after the fall of the Wall.
In 2003, she won the Roswitha Prize and the German Critics Prize. Her novel Tupolew 134 met with enthusiastic reviews, and in 2005 won the new Marburger Literature Prize and the Bremen Literature Prize. Her 2007 novel Kältere Schichten der Luft won the Hermann Hesse Prize and the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2007. It was also shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize. In 2012 Sturz der Tage in die Nacht was nominated for the German Book Prize.
Strubel has translated books by American novelist Joan Didion into German. Strubel has also written numerous short stories and published articles, commentaries, and critical reviews in newspapers and literary journals.
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