Thomas Mann
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born
June 06, 1875
died
August 12, 1955
gender
male
place of birth
Lübeck, Germany
influences
Dostoevsky, Stirner, Fontane, Freud, J.P. Jacobsen, Goethe, Hesse, Hoffmann, Jung, Lessing, Luther, Nietzsche, Poe, Schlegel, Schopenhauer, Wagner, Schoenberg, von Platen, Grimmelshausen, Heinrich Mann, Melville
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 "principally for his great novel, Buddenbrooks, which has won steadily increased recognition as one of the classic works of contemporary literature."
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"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
— Thomas Mann
— Thomas Mann
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