Congratulations from home: Potsdam's mayor Burkhard Exner has congratulated the author Antje Rávik Strubel on the German Book Prize.
She has enriched the literary landscape with her books and texts for years and has also left remarkable traces of her work in Brandenburg, said Exner (SPD) on Monday evening.
Berlin - The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in Frankfurt / Main had previously announced that the book “Blaue Frau” would be recognized as the best German-language novel of the year.
The prize is endowed with 25,000 euros.
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Strubel's works include, for example, “Open aperture”, “Colder layers of the air”, “Fall of the day into the night” and “In the woods of the human heart”.
The author also wrote the volume "Instructions for Use for Potsdam and Brandenburg".
Strubel was born in Potsdam in 1974.
She first trained as a bookseller and then studied psychology and literature in Potsdam and New York.
She later lived in Sweden, among other places, before returning to Potsdam.
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