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Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha was originally written in ____

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A

French

B

Russian

C

English

D

German

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Correct Answer :

Option D

German

Solution :

The correct option is German.

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-born Swiss novelist, poet, and painter. He wrote his famous allegorical novel, Siddhartha, in German (titled Siddhartha: Eine indische Dichtung).
The novel was first published in Germany in 1922 by the S. Fischer Verlag publishing house. It was later translated into English in 1951 and gained widespread popularity globally, but its original language of composition remains German.

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