BerlínBerlín — La escritora mexicana Fernanda Melchor recibirá este año el Premio Anna Seghers, junto con el alemán Joshua Gross. Cada uno de los dos premiados recibirá 10.000 euros (11.235,1 dólares) ...

Anna Seghers's novel Überfahrt (1971) posits storytelling as a means to engage both personal experience and public narrative. Drawing on Homi Bhabha's notion of the interplay between a state's ...

Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book first published in 1944. Seghers is famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. “Transit” is an existential, political, literary ...

Recently, while I was browsing for something new to read, a book with an unassuming cover and intriguing title caught my eye. It was Anna Seghers’s “The Seventh Cross”—and, as it turns out, the first ...

The novel set in Vichy Marseilles after France fell to Nazi Germany has been released by Qoqnush Publications in Tehran. Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book. Written in German, it was ...

You can watch a recording of this and other CGES webinars by clicking the button above. Born Netty Reiling in Mainz in 1900 into a liberal Jewish family, Seghers studied history, art history, and ...

The Austrian civil war of February 1934 was a key event in the unfolding tragedy of that country which culminated in the Anschluss of 1938. The literary response by Austrian writers was, however, very ...

Anna Seghers, trans from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. NYRB Classics, $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68137-535-9 German writer Seghers (1900–1983) was among the first writers to address the rise and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Anna Seghers was a Communist who wrote this novel in exile in France in 1938. Published in the original German the following year, it ...

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