1946 Literature Nobelist

The answer

HESSE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HESSE answer page.

Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• HERMANN (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for HESSE

Every other clue in this collection answered by HESSE, most used first.

• "Steppenwolf" author - used 95 times, most recently in 2026
• "Siddhartha" author - used 90 times, most recently in 2023
• German state - used 25 times, most recently in 2018
• "Steppenwolf" author Hermann - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Wiesbaden's state - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
• "Siddhartha" author Hermann - used 20 times, most recently in 2021
• "Siddhartha" writer - used 17 times, most recently in 2018
• "The Glass Bead Game" author - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• "Demian" author - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
• "Siddhartha" novelist - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• "Steppenwolf" writer - used 13 times, most recently in 2010
• Novelist Hermann - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Steppenwolf" novelist - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• "Siddhartha" novelist Hermann - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Frankfurt's state - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Steppenwolf" novelist Hermann - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Nobelist in Literature: 1946 - used 8 times, most recently in 1988
• Author Hermann - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Hermann who wrote "Siddhartha" - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Hermann who wrote "Steppenwolf" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "The Glass Bead Game" author Hermann - used 6 times, most recently in 2013

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• Lorna of literature - DOONE, used 25 times
• Nobelist Bohr - NIELS, used 22 times
• Begin's co-Nobelist - SADAT, used 19 times
• Nobelist Curie - MARIE, used 18 times
• Peace Nobelist Root - ELIHU, used 17 times
• Nobelist Root - ELIHU, used 15 times

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