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About Hermann Hesse
German-Swiss poet and novelist
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature and is best known for novels such as Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game. His writing was shaped by his interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, as well as by his engagement with Jungian analysis. Across his fiction, he returns to the search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spiritual meaning.
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Books by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
2006
Der Steppenwolf
2002
Demian
2000
Das Glasperlenspiel
1990
Narziss und Goldmund
2003