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'''Thomas Mann''' (born June 6, 1875, Lübeck, [[Germany]]; died August 12, 1955, [[Zurich]]) was a German [[novel]]ist, [[short story]] writer and [[essay]]ist. In 1929, he was awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature, primarily in recognition of his masterpiece, the epic realist novel ''Buddenbrooks''. The Nobel presenter praised Mann for having "reconciled the loftiness of poetry and the intellect with a yearning love for the human and for the simple life."<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1929/press.html</ref>
== Selected works ==
*''Buddenbrooks'' (1901)
*''Tonio Kröger'' (1902)
*''Death in Venice'' (1912)
*''The Magic Mountain'' (1924)
*''Joseph and his Brothers'' (4 vols., 1933-42)
*''Doctor Faustus'' (1947)
===References===
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[[Category:Novelists]]
[[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]
== Selected works ==
*''Buddenbrooks'' (1901)
*''Tonio Kröger'' (1902)
*''Death in Venice'' (1912)
*''The Magic Mountain'' (1924)
*''Joseph and his Brothers'' (4 vols., 1933-42)
*''Doctor Faustus'' (1947)
===References===
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mann, Thomas}}
[[Category:Novelists]]
[[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]