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Hermann Hesse
Born
(1877-07-02)2 July 1877 Calw, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died
9 August 1962(1962-08-09) (aged 85) Montagnola, Ticino, Switzerland
Resting place
Cimitero di S. Abbondio, Gentilino, Ticino
Occupation
Novelist
short story author
essayist
poet
painter
Citizenship
German
Swiss
Genre
Fiction
Notable works
The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Siddhartha (1922)
Steppenwolf (1927)
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
Demian (1919)
Notable awards
Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1936)
Goethe Prize (1946)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1946)
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize (1950)
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1955)
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Hermann Karl Hesse (German:[ˈhɛʁmanˈhɛsə]ⓘ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include...
author HermannHesse. It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland, where it was published in 1943 after being rejected for publication in Germany due to Hesse's anti-Fascist...
Ninon Hesse (née Ausländer; 18 September 1895 – 22 September 1966, in Montagnola) was an art historian and HermannHesse's third wife. Ninon Ausländer...
The Fairy Tales of HermannHesse is a collection of 22 fairy tales written by HermannHesse between the years of 1904 and 1918 and translated by Jack Zipes...
Demian: The Story of a Boyhood is a bildungsroman by HermannHesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. Demian was first published...
well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate HermannHesse. Gundert is chiefly known for his contributions as an Indologist, and...
most prominent resident of Calw was the author and Nobel prize winner HermannHesse. The district reform of 1 January 1973 gave the district of Calw its...
language authors (with 32 laureates) with winners including Thomas Mann, HermannHesse, Günter Grass, and Peter Handke. Periodization is not an exact science...
of three tales by HermannHesse, published in 1915 by S. Fischer Verlag. The three episodes are about a vagrant called Knulp. Hesse wrote these tales...
International HermannHesse Prize of the Foundation (awarded by the HermannHesse Foundation [de], worth: €15,000) and the HermannHesse Prize of the International...
Beneath the Wheel (Unterm Rad) is a 1906 novel written by HermannHesse. The novel is a severe criticism of academic education that ignores students'...
Robert Oppenheimer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Bulent Ecevit, HermannHesse, Heinrich Himmler, George Harrison, Nikola Tesla among others. The main...
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travelled to Germany and then Switzerland, where he met the novelist HermannHesse and psychoanalyst Carl Jung; in 1965, he published a reminiscence of...
Common examples include Voltaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, HermannHesse, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Ayn Rand. Authors...
German-Swiss author HermannHesse which was first published in 1930. At its publication, Narcissus and Goldmund was considered Hesse's literary triumph;...
period Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary, and a biography of HermannHesse, entitled HermannHesse. Sein Leben und sein Werk (1927). As co-founder of the Cabaret...
The 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the German author HermannHesse "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration...
Henry James (1897) Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (1901) Beneath the Wheel, by HermannHesse, 1906 Martin Eden, by Jack London (1909) The Book of Khalid, by Ameen...
from German to Italian, including those of Christa Wolf, Franz Kafka, HermannHesse, Bertolt Brecht, and many others.[not verified in body] Raja has been...
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