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    Paul Thomas Mann (UK: / ˈ m æ n / MAN, US: / ˈ m ɑː n / MAHN; German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈman] ⓘ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for ...

  2. Jun 2, 2024 · Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist whose early novels—Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)—earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Learn more about Mann’s life and works in this article.

  3. Biographical note on Thomas Mann. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) moved to Switzerland in 1933 shortly after the Nazis had come to power and begun a campaign of abuse against him. He was formally expatriated in 1936.

  4. Thomas Mann was a Nobel Prize winning German novelist, short story writer, and philanthropist. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, literary career, life, achievements and timeline.

  5. Jun 11, 2018 · Overview. Considered one of the foremost twentieth-century German novelists, Thomas Mann gained fame for ironic and philosophical works that reflected the doubts and fears of his era.

  6. Sep 24, 2023 · His intelligent, perceptive and well-written Thomas Mann: A Biography (1994) has a Prologue announcing his dominant themes and a detailed 50-page Chronology. Hayman describes Mann as “elegant, dignified, self-assured, dispassionate and rather aloof.”

  7. Thomas Mann Biography. Thomas Mann was born in 1875 into a highly respected merchant family in the medieval town of Lübeck on the North Sea. He was the second of five children of Senator Thomas Heinrich Mann and his musically talented wife. It was through his mother and the many musicians frequenting their house that Mann was exposed to music ...

  8. Thomas Mann was a multifaceted author with a prolific output of fiction and novels. As the son of a merchant, he was expected to take over the family’s grain firm in Lübeck, but like his older brother Heinrich, he chose to concentrate on writing instead.

  9. Jan 3, 1982 · Thomas Mann the symbolist and ironist is a familiar figure of modern literary history, and he has been canvassed intensely in the scholarly literature, recently in an extensive German...

  10. Thomas Mann (mahn), regarded by many critics as one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century, was born in Lübeck, Germany, to Johann Heinrich Mann, a grain merchant and senator of...

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