Cristina Rivera Garza (born October 1, 1964) is a Mexican author and professor best known for her fictional work, with various novels such as "Nadie me verá llorar" winning a number of Mexico’s highest literary awards as well as awards abroad.
 The author was born in the state of Tamaulipas, near the U.S. border and has developed her career in teaching and writing on both sides of the border.
 She has taught history and creative writing at various universities such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Tec de Monterrey, Campus Toluca and her current position at the University of California, San Diego.
 Awards include the Juan Vicente Melo National Short Story Award, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (the only author to win this award twice) and the Anna Seghers International Prize.
David Mitrani Arenal (born May 12, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban writer, belonging to a generation that once was called "novísimos".
 He has won several awards including the International Prize Anna Seghers in 1998 given it by Anna Seghers Foundation and the Academy of Arts in Berlin .
 In his country, he won the important Alejo Carpentier award in 2003.
Anna Seghers' novel The Seventh Cross (German: "Das siebte Kreuz" ), is one of the better-known examples of German literature circa World War II.
 It was published first in the United States, in an abridged version, in September 1942 by Little, Brown and Company.
 Its publication was surrounded by a certain amount of fanfare; by the end of September, there were already plans for a comic strip version of "The Seventh Cross", it having already been selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club book.
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, "The Once and Future King", first published together in 1958.
 One of his most memorable stories is the first of that series, "The Sword in the Stone", published as a stand-alone book in 1938.
Anna Seghers-Preis is a literary prize of Germany.
 The prize goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers (1900-1983), who stated in her testament that the revenues from her work should be used to encourage promising young writers.
 The award is endowed with 15,000 euros, to be awarded in equal parts to an author from the German and the Latin American region.
 The prize has been awarded since 1986 by the Academy of Arts (Berlin) till 1994, later by the Anna Seghers Foundation.
 The board of the Anna Seghers Foundation appoints an annual personality as a juror, which suggests the two winners.
Anna Seghers (19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.
 The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname of the Dutch painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers (c. 1589 – c. 1638).
Hermann Kant was born on June 14, 1926, in Hamburg, Germany the son of a factory worker and a gardener born into poverty.
 His younger brother, Uwe Kant, became a well-known children's author.
 Because of the impending bombing of Hamburg during the Second World War, the family moved to Parchim in 1940, where his paternal grandfather lived as a master potter.
 After passing elementary school he began an electrician apprenticeship in Parchim, which he completed in 1944.
 On December 8, 1944, he was drafted into the German Military.
 He became a Polish POW, was held in Warsaw's Mokotów Prison and later was transferred to a labor camp, which was located on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.
 He was the co-founder of the antifascist committee and teacher at the Antifa Central School.
 During this time he met the writer Anna Seghers, who would have a lasting impression on him.
 After being released as a prisoner of war in 1949, he moved to East Germany and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
The Three Leaps of Wang Lun ("Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun") is a historical novel by German author Alfred Döblin that narrates upheaval and revolution in 18th-century China.
 Published in 1916 (although back-dated to 1915), this epic historical novel was Döblin's third novel (although it was the first to be published as a book), and garnered him the Fontane Prize.
 Favorably received by critics, who praised its detailed and exotic depictions of China, it was a literary breakthrough for Döblin.
 "Wang Lun" also had an influence on younger German writers, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Anna Seghers, and Bertolt Brecht; for the latter, "Wang Lun" provided an impulse for the development of the theory of epic theatre.
 In commercial sales, it is Döblin's most successful novel after "Berlin Alexanderplatz".
 The title of the novel refers to the rebel leader Wang Lun.
The Cultural Association of the GDR (German: "Kulturbund der DDR" , KB) was a federation of local clubs in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
 It formed part of the Socialist Unity Party-led National Front, and sent representatives to the Volkskammer.
 The association had numerous writers as its member, including Willi Bredel, Fritz Erpenbeck, Bernhard Kellermann, Victor Klemperer, Anna Seghers, Bodo Uhse, Arnold Zweig.
 Its first chairman was Johannes Robert Becher.
The Trial of Joan of Arc of Proven, 1431 is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of a radio play by Anna Seghers.
 It was written in collaboration with Benno Besson and premiered at the Berliner Ensemble in November 1952, in a production directed by Besson (his first important production with the Ensemble), with Käthe Reichel as Joan.

Question: who was born first,  T. H. White or Anna Seghers ?
Answer: Anna Seghers