Novelist Thomas Mann 1875 - 1955

Jan. 1, 1930 - Berlin, Germany - German novelist and critic, one of the most important figures in early 20th-century literature, THOMAS MANN whose novels explore the relationship between the exceptional individual and his or her environment. Mann was influenced by two German philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, although he rejected the ideas of the latter. His early novels - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain - earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. PICTURED: With his wife KATJA MANN

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