Antje Rávic Strubel

Antje Rávic Strubel in 2005

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. It was also shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize. In 2012 Sturz der Tage in die Nacht was nominated for the German Book Prize.

Works

As editor

External links

References

1. Literary critic Elmar Krekeler in Die Welt, 17.03.2007