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The German-born Swiss poet and novelist, Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1877. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Hermann Hesse died in Montagnola near Lugano, Switzerland in 1962.

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Autographed portrait of writer Hermann Hesse, Leo Baeck Institute, F 11151A.