Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His work was deeply influential and celebrated throughout the German-speaking world during his lifetime but didn’t become widely known in the United States until the mid-1960s. This popularity was credited to the hippie movement and to the interest in the quest for enlightenment detailed in Siddhartha, one of the most popular Western novels, set in India, along with Journey to the East and Narcissus and Goldmund.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Poet, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018