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Born	June 6, 1875 • Lübeck • Germany
Died	August 12, 1955 (aged 80) • near Zürich • Switzerland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1929)
Notable Works	“An Appeal to Reason” • “Buddenbrooks” • “Death in Venice” • “Der Kleine Herr Friedemann” • “Doctor Faustus” • “Early Sorrow” • “Goethe and Tolstoi” • “Joseph and His Brothers” • “Mario and the Magician” • “Reflections of an Unpolitical Man” • “Royal Highness” • “The Beloved Returns” • “The Black Swan” • “The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man” • “The Genesis of a Novel” • “The German Republic” • “The Holy Sinner” • “The Magic Mountain” • “Tonio Kröger” • “Tristan”
Movement / Style	realism