Hesse published some poems in his early 20s, but his big breakthrough came in 1904, when he was 27, with the publication of his first novel, Peter Camenzind.

Thomas Mann, writing in 1937 in reaction to Nazi bombast about the Greater Germany, hailed Hesse as the great poet of the Little Germany: “There is nothing more German than this writer and his ...

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 ...

Herman Hesse, novelist and poet, was born in Germany in 1877, became a Swiss citizen in 1921 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He died in 1962.

A poet or nothing at all. Hesse knew exactly what he wanted to become - "a poet or nothing at all." His journey to writing was in itself an odyssey. After trying out many different schools, ...

107 107 people viewed this event. Presentation of never-before-translated poetry of Hermann Hesse by literature professors Ludwig Max Fischer and Stanley Fefferman plus open mic for participants ...