Editing Anna Seghers (section)

==Honors and awards==
In 1951, Seghers received the first [[National Prize of the German Democratic Republic|National Prize of the GDR]] and the [[Stalin Peace Prize]]. She received an honorary doctorate from the [[University of Jena]] in 1959. Seghers was nominated for the 1967 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] by the German Academy of Arts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Forteckning over forslag till 1967 ars Nobelpris i litteratur|url=http://www.svenskaakademien.se/sites/default/files/forslagslista_1967.pdf|website=Swedish Academy (Svenska akademien)|access-date=13 January 2018}}</ref> In 1981, she was made an honorary citizen of her native town Mainz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm |title=Anna Seghers |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519133420/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm |archive-date=19 May 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/germanistik/literatur20/Seiten/biographie.htm |title=German biography |access-date=14 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623065238/http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/germanistik/literatur20/Seiten/biographie.htm |archive-date=23 June 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> She died in Berlin on 1 June 1983 and is buried there.