About Anna Seghers
Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
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Awards & Honors
National Prize of East Germany
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Kleist Prize
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Order of Karl Marx
Order of the October Revolution
Johannes R. Becher Medal
International Stalin Prize for Peace
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honorary citizen of Berlin
Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver
honorary doctor of the University of Jena
Grand Star of People's Friendship
honorary citizen of Mainz
Hero of Labour
