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International Writers Series: Antje Rávik Strubel In-Person
Join the International Writers Series for a reading and discussion with 2025 Max Kade Visiting Writer Antje Rávik Strubel.
Strubel is an award-winning German author, and her most recent novel Blaue Frau (Blue Woman) won the German Book Prize in 2021. She will be joined in conversation by Carla Fischer, PhD Student in Germanic Languages & Literatures.
Free and open to all, registration requested.
Antje Rávik Strubel is the award-winning author of the novels Unter Schnee (2001), Fremd Gehen. Ein Nachtstück (2002), Tupolew 134 (2004) and the episodic novel In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens (2016). Kältere Schichten der Luft (2007) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Priz, Sturz der Tage in die Nacht (2011) was long-listed for the German Book Prize, and Blaue Frau (Blue Woman) won the German Book Prize 2021. She is also a sought-after translator from the English and the Swedish. Authors she has translated include Joan Didion, Lena Andersson, Lucia Berlin and Virginia Woolf. She lives in Potsdam.
Co-sponsored by WashU Libraries, the Department of Comparative Literature & Thought, and the Center for Literary Arts.
- Date:
- Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Time:
- 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Olin Library, Ginkgo Room
- Campus:
- Danforth Campus
- Audience:
- Community Faculty Graduate Students Library Staff Staff Undergraduate Students