Awards & Winners

Heinrich Böll

Date of Birth 21-December-1917
Place of Birth Cologne
(Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Heinrich Boll, Heinrich Theodor Böll
Profession Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter
Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.

Awards by Heinrich Böll

Check all the awards nominated and won by Heinrich Böll.

1972


Nobel Prize in Literature
(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)