Anna Seghers

✶November 19, 1900

†June 1, 1983

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About their life

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).

German writer (1900–1983)

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Biography from the article Anna Seghers on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.