The crossword solution for the term 'German State or Novelist' is 'Hesse'. Hermann Hesse was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. He is best known for his novels such as Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society. Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. He was born in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in 1877 and died in 1962.