Snowed Under

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Unter Schnee (Snowed Under) is an episodic novel composed of thirteen connected short stories. The action takes place in a small eastern European ski resort called Harrachov during the chaotic period following the fall of the Wall. Though the rapid process of "Westernization" has already begun making inroads into the sleepy town, t

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Born 1974 in Potsdam, Antje Rvic Strubel studied American and German literature and psychology at Potsdam University and New York University. An author and free-lance journalist in Berlin, her novels include: Kltere Schichten der Luft (S. Fischer, 2007); Vom Dorf: Abenteur Geschichten zu Weihnachten (DTV, 2007); Tupolew 134 (C.H. Beck, 2004), Fremd Gehen: Ein Nachtstck (DTV, 2002), Unter Schnee (DTV, 2001) and Offene Blende (DTV, 2001). She is the German translator of Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking (Claasen, 2006). Her short stories have been anthologized widely. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Bremer Literature Award (2005), Marburger Literature Award (2005), the Roswitha-von-Gandersheim-Award (2003), The Academy of Arts Award for Literature (2002), and the Ernst-Willner-Award at the Ingeborg-Bachman competition in Klagenfurt (2001). She was writer-in-residence at the Villa Aurora (2004).
Zaia Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from UCLA. She has taught in the German and Comparative Literature departments at UCLA and worked in the Scholars and Seminars Program at the Getty Research Institute, where she co-curated Peter Forgacs's The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River. Her publications include "Primo Levi: On Translation" in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi(2007), "The Translator's Diary" in Suitcase: A Journal for Transcultural Traffic, "The Danube Exodus: the Rippling Currents of the River" (co-authored with Marsha Kinder) in Future Cinema: The CinematicImaginary after Film (MIT) and co-authored with Antje Rvic Strubel "The Unfaithful Original in Neue Deutsche Literatur (NDL). A selection of her translations include the novel Unter Schnee (Snowed Under) by Antje Rvic Strubel, the Theresienstadt diary We're Alive and Life Goes On by Eva Roubickova (Henry Holt), and "On Translating and Being Translated" by Primo Levi (LA Times Sunday Book Review). She is currently Program Coordinator at the Villa Aurora Foundation for European-American Relations.