Antje Rávic Strubel

Antje Rávic Strubel is a German writer. She was born in 1974 in Potsdam.

Life

After leaving school, Antje Strubel Rávic first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied in literature, psychology and American studies in New York. In New York she worked as a lighting assistant in a theater.

Critical reception

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.

Works

• Offene Blende (Open Aperture). Novel. Munich, 2001. ISBN 3-423-24251-5.
• Unter Schnee (Under the snow). Episode novel. Munich, 2001. ISBN 3-423-24277-9.
• Fremd Gehen (To foreign lands). Hamburg: Marebuch, 2002. ISBN 3-936384-01-0.
• Tupolew 134. Novel. Munich: CH Beck, 2004. ISBN 3-406-52183-5.
• Kältere Schichten der Luft (Colder layers of air). Novel. Frankfurt a. M.: S. Fischer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-10-075121-8.
• Vom Dorf (From the village). Adventure stories. Munich, 2007. ISBN 978-3-423-24622-4.
• Gebrauchsanweisung für Schweden (Instruction Manual for Sweden). München: Piper, 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-27556-9 . Munich: Piper, 2008. ISBN 978-3-492-27556-9.

As editor

• Zeitzonen. Literatur in Deutschland 2004 (Time zones. Literature in Germany 2004). Vienna: Edition Selene, 2004. ISBN 3-85266-233-8.

External links

• Her personal homepage

References

1. Literary critic Elmar Krekeler in Die Welt, 17.03.2007