বায়োগ্রাফি: Hermann Karl Hesse is best known for his works like Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-understanding, and mysticism. Hesse saw the rise to power of Nazism in Germany with distress and in 1933 helped Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann to escape. He was awarded Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1936), The Goethe Prize (1946), Nobel Prize in Literature (1946), Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize (1950) and Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1955). He was born in the black forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German Empire. Hesse loved music like his mother. Both music and poetry were important in his family. His mother wrote poetry, and his father was known linguistic skills, sermons and the writing of religious tracts. His first role model for becoming an artist was his half-brother, Theo, who rebelled against the family by entering music at a school in 1885. By 1889–90 had decided that he wanted to be a writer.