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Heinrich Böll was a German writer who lived from 1917 to 1985 and is widely recognized as one of the most important literary figures of post-World War II Germany. His works, which often explored the human cost of war and the struggles of ordinary people in German society, made him a significant voice in European literature and earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972.
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Heinrich Theodor Böll (/bɜːrl/; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈbœl] ; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
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