She was twice awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1955, 1965). As an established writer, she was allowed to travel to England, Scotland, and Italy, and in 1960 she toured the United States. Her published travel notes and articles, and an epilogue to the Russian translation of The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, show her affinity for Western life and culture. Later life In her later life, she published many works of fiction (most of them autobiographical or based on Russian history of the 17th century), plays, and film scripts. She helped many younger writers who later become famous, among them Yury Kazakov, Sergei Dovlatov (her secretary for many years), Viktor Konetzky, Andrei Bitov, and Viktor Golyavkin. Her son Boris Vakhtin (1930–1981) was a notable dissident and Russian writer, the founder of the group Gorozhane. In 1967, she suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed. Though incapacitated, she continued to work with the help of her family and a number of secretaries until the day of her death. Vera Panova died in Leningrad in 1973 and is buried in Komarovo near Anna Akhmatova. English translations Looking Ahead, (novel), Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1947. from Archive.org The Factory, (novel), Putnam, 1949. The Train, (novel), Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. from Archive.org Span of the Year, (novel), Harvill Press, 1957. Time Walked, (novel), Harvill Press, 1957. A Summer to Remember, (novel), Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. Selected Works, (includes the novel The Train, the short novel Seryozha, and the stories Valya and Volodya), Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1976. Three Boys at the Gate, (story), Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Volume 2, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1976. Yevdokia, (novel), Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow. References Panova's article in Encyclopedia "Krugosvet" External links Works of Panova Russian women short story writers Soviet short story writers Soviet screenwriters Russian women dramatists and playwrights Soviet dramatists and playwrights Soviet novelists Soviet women writers Stalin Prize winners Writers from Rostov-on-Don Russian women journalists 1905 births 1973 deaths Socialist realism writers Communist women writers 20th-century Russian journalists Soviet women novelists