Author: Anna Seghers
Alternate names: Анна Зегерс; Annette Netti Reiling; Annette Reiling
Title: pseud.
Born: 19 November 1900
Died: 1 June 1983
Bio: Anna Seghers, is the pseudonym of a German writer Annette (Netti) Reiling, 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).