Siddhartha - Indian poem

Author's name: Hermann Hesse

“Siddhartha is one of the simplest and most profound books I have ever read.” – Henry Miller

Hesse's famous and moving novel is perhaps the most important allegory produced by our turbulent age. Hesse blended Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy. This simple and eerie tale, written with deep compassion for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its publication in 1922.

Siddhartha is the story of a young man who searches for the ultimate truth and meets the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from lust, wealth, and fame to wisdom and renunciation.

The most important and beautiful novel by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, translated by Samir Gerges, faithfully and beautifully.

About the translator
Samir Grace studied German literature in Cairo and Mainz, Germany, and has translated approximately forty contemporary literary works from German, including "The Pianist" by Elfriede Jelinek (Nobel Prize 2004), "Friendship" by Thomas Bernhard, "The Capital" by Robert Menasse, and "Don Juan" by Peter Handke (Nobel Prize 2019). He has also authored a book about the German writer Günter Grass (Nobel Prize 1999), titled "Günter Grass and the Face of a Past That Doesn't Go Away."
Al-Karma Publishing has published the novel "The Promise" by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the long story "An Objective Report on the Happiness of a Morphine Addict" by Hans Fallada, the novella "A Dream" by Arthur Schnitzler, and the novel "The Epic of Annette" by Anne Weber.
Grace received the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Award for Translation (Individual Efforts Category) in 2022, the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding in 2018, the Goethe-Institut Prize for Literary Translation (Experienced Translators Category) in 2014, and the first prize for short story translation from the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt in 1996.