Early Sorrow Author:Thomas Mann 1928. Mann, German essayist, cultural critic, and novelist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Among Mann's most famous works are Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. His novels usually explore the relationship between the exceptional individual and his or her environment, the environment of family, or of the world in genera... more »l. Early Sorrow is among his later writings and are tales about parental love.« less