Heinrich Böll

Nobel Prize in Literature 1972

“for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature”

Heinrich Böll was a German writer. He received the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature for writing that, through a broad perspective on his time and sensitive characterization, contributed to a renewal of German literature. He was a prominent postwar German novelist and short-story writer.

Field

Literature · Literature

Lifespan

1917–1985