Antje Rávik Strubel receives the German Book Prize 2021. This was announced by the German Book Trade Association on Monday in Frankfurt. “Blaue Frau” is named the best German-language novel of the year. The prize is endowed with 25,000 euros.
The novel published by S. Fischer depicts a young woman’s flight from memories of being raped. The jury judged the author to treat the subject “with existential force and poetic precision”. “The story of female self-empowerment expands into a reflection on rival cultures of remembrance in Eastern and Western Europe and power gaps between the sexes.”
The German Book Prize is endowed with 25,000 euros for the winner. The other finalists will each receive 2500 euros. The winner will be announced at the beginning of the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 18.