Hermann Karl Hesse is a German poet and novelist. Hesse won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
His best-known works include ‘Demian’, ‘Steppenwolf’, ‘Siddhartha’ and ‘The Glass Bead Game’. His works basically depicted the spirit and nature-the mind and the body.
Hesse was born on 2nd July 1877, in Germany. His grandfather Hermann Gundert developed the current grammar in Malayalam language, compiled a Malayalam-English dictionary, and also contributed to the work in translating the Bible to Malayalam.
After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1946, Hermann Hesse did not contribute much to literature. Hesse’s works did not receive much acclaim till his death. It’s only after his death that the world started appreciating his works.
Hermann Hesse died on 9th August, 1962, at the age of eighty-five.
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