biography
pronunciation:
[hesuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1962)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Calw, SW Germany. He was a bookseller and antiquarian in Basel (1895–1902), and published his first novel in 1904. His works include Rosshalde (1914), Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), and Das Glasperlenspiel (1945, The Glass Bead Game). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. From 1911 he lived in Switzerland. His psychological and mystical concerns made him something of a cult figure after his death. |
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