Antje Rávic Strubel is a German

Germany

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 writer. She was born in 1974 in Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

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Life

After leaving school, Antje Strubel Rávic first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, 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

Roswitha Prize

The Roswitha Prize is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women.The Roswitha-Medal has been given almost yearly since 1973 by the city of Bad Gandersheim....

 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

Rheingau Literatur Preis

Rheingau Literatur Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. It is awarded annually since 1994 by the Rheingau Literatur Festival which follows the Rheingau Musik Festival...

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.