Anna Seghers

Anna Seghers (1900–1983), born Netty Reiling, was a German writer. She studied art and cultural history, history, and sinology in Heidelberg and Cologne, and began publishing under the name Anna Seghers in 1928. Her best-known works include the novels *The Seventh Cross*, *Transit*, and *The Dead Stay Young*. As a Jewish communist, she fled Germany in 1933 and reached exile in Mexico with her family in 1941. She returned to Germany in 1947. Her awards included the Kleist Prize and, in 1947, the Georg Büchner Prize. From 1952 to 1978, she chaired the Writers’ Association of the GDR. She died in Berlin in 1983.