Thomas Mann, a member of a Hanseatic family with deep roots in Lübeck, was arguably Germany's most famous twentieth-century writer. In 1929, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Damion Searls is a prize-winning translator of fifty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. Liveright published his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet in 2020.
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