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  2. Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century - Wikipedia

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    The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century. [1]

  3. German literature - Wikipedia

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    The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about the mid-11th century; the most famous works are the Hildebrandslied and a heroic epic known as the Heliand. Middle High German starts in the 12th century; the key works include The Ring (c. 1410) and the poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein and Johannes von Tepl. The Baroque period (1600 to ...

  4. Karl May - Wikipedia

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    Karl Friedrich May (/ m aɪ / MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ⓘ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels and adventures, set in the American Old West, the Orient, the Middle East, Latin America, China and Germany.

  5. List of best-selling fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    German: Western, adventure 80 German: Mickey Spillane: 100 million [87] 200 million [88] English Detective, Mike Hammer: American C. S. Lewis: 100 million [89] 200 million [90] English The Chronicles of Narnia, fantasy, popular theology 38 British Kyotaro Nishimura: 200 million [91] Japanese Mystery 400+ Japanese Mitsuru Adachi: 200 million [92 ...

  6. Thomas Mann - Wikipedia

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    House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum. Paul Thomas Mann was born to a hanseatic family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German, Portuguese and Native Brazilian ancestry, who emigrated to Germany with her family ...

  7. German science fiction - Wikipedia

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    German science fiction literature encompasses all German-language literary productions, whether of German, Swiss or Austrian origin, in the science fiction genre. German science fiction literature in the modern sense appeared at the end of the 19th century with the writer Kurd Laßwitz, while Jules Verne in France had already written most of his Voyages extraordinaires and H. G. Wells in Great ...

  8. Category:German books - Wikipedia

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    German books by writer (41 C) * Books by publishing company of Germany (13 C) A. German anthologies (5 P) E. East German books (1 C, 2 P) N. Nazi books (7 P)

  9. List of German-language authors - Wikipedia

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    This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the German language. It includes both living and deceased writers. Most of the medieval authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet

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