to have been influenced by Gertrud Kolmar and Else Lasker-Schüler, in addition to Celan. In 1961 Sachs won the first Nelly Sachs Prize, a literary award given biennially by the German city of Dortmund and named in her honour. The city commissioned Walter Steffens to compose the opera Eli based on her mystery play, which premiered at the new opera house in 1967. When, with Shmuel Yosef Agnon, she was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, she observed that Agnon represented Israel whereas "I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people." She read her poem "In der Flucht" at the ceremony. Sachs died from colorectal cancer in 1970. She was interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. Her possessions were donated to the National Library of Sweden. A memorial plaque commemorates her birthplace, Maaßenstraße 12, in Schöneberg, Berlin, where there is also a park named for her in Dennewitzstraße. A park on the island of Kungsholmen in Stockholm also bears her name. Partial Bibliography Poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes [In the Houses of Death], 1947. Sternverdunkelung [Eclipse of Stars], 1949. Und niemand weiss weiter [And No One Knows Where to Go], 1957. Flucht und Verwandlung [Flight and Metamorphosis], 1959. Fahrt ins Staublose: Die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs 1 [Journey into the Dustless Realm: The Poetry of Nelly Sachs, 1], 1961. Zeichen im Sand [Signs in the Sand], 1962 Suche nach Lebenden: Die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs 2 [Search for the Living: The Poetry of Nelly Sachs, 2], 1971. Stories Legenden und Erzählungen [Legends and Tales], 1921. Drama [Eli: A Mystery Play of the Suffering of Israel], 1950 Letters Briefe der Nelly Sachs [Letters of Nelly Sachs] ed. Ruth Dinesen and Helmut Müssener, 1984. Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence, tr. Christopher Clark, ed. Barbara Wiedemann, 1995. Translations O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli, tr. Michael Hamburger et al., 1967. The Seeker and Other Poems. tr. Ruth Mead, Matthew Mead, and Michael Hamburger, 1970. Contemporary German Poetry, selections, ed. and tr. Gertrude C. Schwebell, 1964. Collected Poems I, 1944–1949, 2007. Glowing Enigmas, tr. Michael Hamburger, 2013. Flight and Metamorphosis, tr. Joshua Weiner with Linda B. Parshall, 2022. Sachs is published by Suhrkamp Verlag. See also List of female Nobel laureates List of Jewish Nobel laureates Manfred George, Nelly Sachs's cousin Notes References www.nobel-winners.com – Nelly Sachs. This article includes some text from that page, in its