Antje Rávik Strubel, born 1974 in Potsdam, studied Literature, American Studies and Psychology. She is a translator from English and Swedish of authors such as Joan Didion, Lena Andersson, Lucia Berlin and Virginia Woolf. Her 2001 debut novel Offene Blende (Engl. Open Aperture) was followed by numerous other books, including Vom Dorf (Engl. From the Village) and In den Wäldern des menschlichen Herzens (Engl. In the Forests of the Human Heart). Blaue Frau (Engl. Blue Woman) is her most recent novel, for which she received the 2021 German Book Prize.