Hermann Hesse
1877
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1962
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: existentialism
country of citizenship: German Empire, Switzerland, Germany, Russian Empire
languages spoken, written or signed: German
occupation: novelist, poet, literary, painter, philosopher, resistance fighter, illustrator, writer
award received: Nobel Prize in Literature, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bauernfeld prize, Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, Gottfried-Keller-Preis, Goethe Prize, Wilhelm Raabe Prize, Pour le Mérite
influenced by: Pietism, Buddhism as a religion, psychoanalysis
official website: www.hermann-hesse.com
Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] (listen); 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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