Heinrich Boll

Heinrich Böll was a German writer, best known for the novel Billiards at Half past Nine, which follows an architect forced to face Germany's Nazi past, and for The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum. He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972, and he is considered one of Germany's foremost writers after World War II. Böll died in 1985.