Praised by critics and awarded the Deutscher Buchpreis in 2021, Blaue Frau explores the expansion of the European Union into former Soviet bloc countries while directly addressing issues of sexual violence and power dynamics. Also a translator of authors such as Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf, Antje Rávik Strubel now finds herself being translated. How did these two women approach the writing and translation of a text that is both poetic and profoundly political?
Antje Rávik Strubel will be signing books afterward from 13:50 to 14:20.