Tehran Times: Anna Seghers novel “Transit” comes to Iranian bookstores
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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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Born 19 November 1900 · Died 1 June 1983 · Q57393
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Tehran Times: Anna Seghers novel “Transit” comes to Iranian bookstores
A collection of her short stories was published in English by NYRB Classics
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Brandeis University: German Writers and Race: Anna Seghers (1900-1983)
Died 1983-06-01.
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Awarded honorary citizen of Mainz (1981).
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Was made an honorary citizen of her native town Mainz
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1980).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Berlin in East Berlin (1975).
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Awarded Order of Friendship of Peoples (1975).
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Awarded Grand Star of People's Friendship (1970).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Jena (1959).
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Seghers received the first National Prize of the GDR and the Stalin Peace Prize
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Moved to East Berlin, where she co-founded the Akademie der Künste der DDR, and became a member of the World Peace Council
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Seghers returned to Germany, settling in West Berlin, an enclave within the Soviet controlled Germany
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Seghers was awarded the Georg Büchner-Prize for this novel
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And quickly adapted for an American movie of the same name featuring Spencer Tracy with the screenplay by Helen Deutsch and direction by Fred Zinnemann
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Fled to Marseilles, seeking to leave Europe
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And describes the escape of seven political prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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Awarded Kleist Prize (1928).
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Married László Radványi, also known as Johann-Lorenz Schmidt, a Hungarian Communist and academic, thereby acquiring Hungarian citizenship
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Studied at Heidelberg University (1922).
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Studied at University of Cologne (1920).
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Born 1900-11-19.
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