Anna Seghers
German author whose anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross became an international sensation during World War II. She was one of the most important writers of the German Democratic Republic.
Works
- The Seventh CrossResistance fighter escaping Nazi prison camp in wartime Germany
- TransitExistential novel of refugees in Vichy France during World War II
- The Revolt of the FishermenHistorical novella about fishermen's uprising in pre-Soviet Russia
- The Dead Stay YoungNovel spanning generations of family during Communist East Germany
- Benito's Blue