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Angelika Schrobsdorff Author

Angelika Schrobsdorff was born in 1927 in Freiburg. She immigrated to Sofia in 1939 with her mother and returned to Germany in 1947. She married Claude Lanzmann, director of the landmark 1985 documentary Shoah, in 1971, and, after more than a decade in Paris and Monaco, they moved to Israel in 1983. Today, Angelika Schrobsdorff lives in Berlin. She is the author of ten novels and two works of short stories. Steven Rendall is an award-winning translator from French and German, professor emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon and editor of Comparative Literature. He currently lives in France.