He's one of the most popular German authors in the ... and fled just a few months later. Hermann Hesse at the age of 50Image: picture-alliance/dpa A poet or nothing at all Hesse knew exactly ...

In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse.

Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology ...

That’s where Hermann Hesse’s writing comes in—not as a quick fix, but as a profound mirror held up to the soul. Hesse, a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and thinker, wrote deeply philosophical ...

“It has to be said, there are no points to be won from liking Hesse ... great German modernists who were his contemporaries mostly disdained him: “A little man,” according to the poet ...

Hermann Hesse (German pronunciation: ) (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works ...

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“There have been some remarkable poets in the history of German literature,” he said, adding, “Our people are well acquainted with Rilke and Goethe.” He also said that he had translated Hermann ...

A permanent exhibition on the German-Swiss writer, painter and poet Hermann Hesse, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, and is considered the most read writer of the 20 th Century.