biography
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Böll, Heinrich (Theodor)
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pronunciation:
[boel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917–85)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Cologne, W Germany. A trilogy, Und sagte kein einziges Wort (1953, trans Acquainted with the Night), Haus ohne Hüter (1954, The Unguarded House), and Das Brot der frühen Jahre (1955, The Bread of our Early Years), depicting life in Germany during and after the Nazi regime, gained him a worldwide reputation. His later novels, characteristically satirizing modern German society, included Die verlorene Ehre der Katherina Blum (1974, The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum). He was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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