# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:45.449Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Hermann Karl Hesse was born 2 July 1877, a German-Swiss poet and novelist whose interest in Eastern religious and philosophical traditions, woven with Jungian analysis, shaped everything he wrote. Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Glass Bead Game — each book followed someone hunting for authenticity, self-knowledge, a way to live that didn't feel like a lie. He was widely read in German-speaking countries while alive and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, but the real surge came years after his death on 9 August 1962: the mid-1960s, when post-war readers in the United States and Europe found in his old pages exactly the questions they were asking.