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The 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
Heinrich Böll
Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1917
d. 1985
 
 
 
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