Author · Germany
Heinrich Böll
Died in 1985
Heinrich Böll was born in 1917 in Cologne, into a Catholic family. An apprentice bookseller, he began literature studies in 1939, then was mobilised: he served in Poland, France, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union, and surrendered to the Americans in April 1945. Back in Cologne, he became one of the leading authors of the postwar period. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1972 and president of International PEN from 1971, he took Alexander Solzhenitsyn into his home when he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He died in 1985.
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