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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann.
Thomas Mann
German author
Quick Facts
- Died:
- August 12, 1955, near Zürich, Switzerland (aged 80)
- Awards And Honors:
- Nobel Prize (1929)
- Notable Works:
- “An Appeal to Reason”
- “Buddenbrooks”
- “Death in Venice”
- “Der Kleine Herr Friedemann”
- “Doctor Faustus”
- “Early Sorrow”
- “Goethe and Tolstoi”
- “Joseph and His Brothers”
- “Mario and the Magician”
- “Reflections of an Unpolitical Man”
- “Royal Highness”
- “The Beloved Returns”
- “The Black Swan”
- “The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man”
- “The Genesis of a Novel”
- “The German Republic”
- “The Holy Sinner”
- “The Magic Mountain”
- “Tonio Kröger”
- “Tristan”
- Movement / Style:
- realism
Thomas Mann (born June 6, 1875, Lübeck, Germany—died August 12, 1955, near Zürich, Switzerland) was a German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Mann’s father died in 1891, and Mann moved to Munich, a centre of art and literature, where he lived until 1933. After perfunctory work in an insurance office and on the editorial staff of Simplicissimus, a satirical weekly, he devoted himself to writing, as his elder brother Heinrich had already done. His early ...(100 of 2066 words)