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Mann   (mān, män)   
German writer whose fascination with the artist's role in society and concern for the intellectual and spiritual well-being of Germany permeate his works, including Death in Venice (1912) and The Magic Mountain (1924). He won the 1929 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Mann, Thomas [(mahn)]

A twentieth-century German author. Among his best-known works are the novels The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice.

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