Nobel laureate: Heinrich Böll
Born: 1917-12-21, Cologne, Germany
Died: 1985-07-16, Bornheim-Merten, West Germany (now Germany)
Gender: male
Prizes:
year: 1972
category: literature
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motivation: "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"