Hermann Hesse
Bewildering Stories biography
A Brief Biography of Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877, in Calw in Baden-Württemberg as the son of a German missionary and died on August 9th, 1962, in Montagnola, Switzerland.
He is known primarily for his novels and short stories. His final novel, The Glass Bead Game or Magister Ludi, published in German in 1943 as Das Glasperlenspiel was instrumental in earning him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
His books have now been translated into no fewer than 40 different languages and continue to be popular around the world. Max Brod, a friend of Franz Kafka, reports that Kafka was an avid reader of Hesse.
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