Hermann Hesse: Quick Facts

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Born	July 2, 1877 • Germany
Died	August 9, 1962 (aged 85) • Switzerland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1946)
Notable Works	“Beneath the Wheel” • “Demian” • “Gertrud” • “Narcissus and Goldmund” • “Peter Camenzind” • “Rosshalde” • “Siddhartha” • “Steppenwolf” • “The Glass Bead Game”

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Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

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Heinrich Böll

German author

Herta Müller, 2009.

Herta Müller

Romanian-born German writer

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Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Heyse, c. 1870

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse

German writer

Peter Handke

Peter Handke

Austrian writer

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Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born writer

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Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian author

Nelly Sachs.

Nelly Sachs

German writer

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Alfred Andersch

German-Swiss writer

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

French write and Nobel laureate André Gide

André Gide

French writer

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John Steinbeck

American novelist

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer