Thomas Mann
1875 CE–1955 CE · Novelist · Lübeck
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, essayist, and short-story writer whose work explores the tension between bourgeois life and the artistic temperament. His major works include Buddenbrooks (1901), Death in Venice (1912), The Magic Mountain (1924), the Joseph tetralogy, and Doctor Faustus (1947). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Opposed to National Socialism, he left Germany after 1933, living in Switzerland and then the United States, where he became a citizen in 1944 and spoke against the Nazi regime. He returned to Switzerland in 1952 and died near Zurich in 1955. His brother Heinrich and several children were also writers.
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- Maurice Ravel· 1875 CE–1937 CE
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- Béla Bartók· 1881 CE–1945 CE
- James Joyce· 1882 CE–1941 CE
- Virginia Woolf· 1882 CE–1941 CE
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- Khalil Gibran· 1883 CE–1931 CE
- D. H. Lawrence· 1885 CE–1930 CE
- Diego Rivera· 1886 CE–1957 CE
- Fernando Pessoa· 1888 CE–1935 CE
- Ludwig Wittgenstein· 1889 CE–1951 CE
- Sergei Prokofiev· 1891 CE–1953 CE
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry· 1900 CE–1944 CE
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