BiographyType: Novelist, short story author, essayist, poet Born: 2 July 1877 Died: 9 August 1962 (aged 85) Born on July 2, 1877, in Calw, Germany, Hermann Hesse cultivated a career as a poet before releasing his debut novel, Peter Camenzind, in 1904. He eventually penned acclaimed books such as "Siddhartha", "Steppenwolf "and "The Glass Bead Game", among other long-form works and novellas. Hesse protested German fighting in WWI and later earned the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died on August 9, 1962. |
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