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Hermann Hesse

1877–1962 · 20th century

Hermann Hesse was a German-born Swiss novelist and poet, born at Calw in Württemberg. His novels, including Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927) and The Glass Bead Game (1943), explore spiritual search and individual identity. He settled in Switzerland and opposed German militarism, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, and found a vast new readership in the 1960s.

Hermann Hesse
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